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...party's top job. During Andropov's decline, Ustinov had already moved to the forefront to enunciate official policy on arms control and Soviet missile deployment in Eastern Europe. A mechanical engineer who spent most of his career building up the defense industry, Ustinov is keenly aware of the chronic bottlenecks in Soviet production that have accounted for sluggish economic growth. Should the ruling elite feel nervous about turning the Soviet Union's pressing agenda of problems over to an unseasoned "youth," Ustinov might prove an ideal choice as a regent in a transitional regime...
Nevertheless, the nuclear industry is not well. Like a patient with a chronic disease, it has been ailing for more than a decade. It has been suffering seriously for nearly five years, ever since a 1979 accident turned the nuclear plant at Three Mile Island, Pa., into a focal point for public fears and protests. Now a series of reversals has worsened nuclear power's condition still further...
...helped chart BL's new direction is its former chairman, Sir Michael Edwardes, 53, a 5-ft. 2-in. South African whom the London Times called "Diminutive Dr. Death." In 1977 Edwardes inherited a ragtag company that was racked with heavy losses, chronic labor problems, aging automobile designs, inefficient factories and low productivity...
That will not be easy. Although no major offshore-well blowouts have occurred in U.S. waters since the Santa Barbara accident, and the technology for plugging an out-of-control well has vastly improved, environmentalists are worried that chronic, low-level oil pollution could be devastating to such rich fishing grounds as the Georges Bank off New England. They also fear that drill rigs off Alaska, a site of suspected major reserves, could be wrecked by errant ice floes, spreading crude oil over the fragile Arctic terrain...
...countries in the troubled region, plans to release its report this week. Though debate within the commission is said to have echoed divisions in Congress and the American public, the group, by most accounts, has now agreed on a general approach for treating Central America's chronic problems of poverty and violence...