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...about where and how he will spend his years in exile. He would like to come to the U.S. TIME has learned that President Carter has dispatched two emissaries to advise him not to apply for a visa. In defense of this repudiation of an old ally, Administration officials cite both the enormous security problem that the Shah's presence would create as well as the difficulties that the U.S. would have in improving relations with the new revolutionary government of Iran...
Pollard and his colleagues cite a series of safety hazards they claim the NRC has tolerated in nuclear plants around the nation, including Three Mile Island. For example, the scientists contend that defects in 26 reactors built by General Electric might cause the release of radiation in an accident similar to the one in Pennsylvania. The scientists have also produced a pamphlet, called the "Nugget File," that describes mishaps at nuclear plants, like the use of a basketball to plug a pipe leading from a radioactive tank...
...fatalities a year. In addition, there is the threat of the "greenhouse effect," the possibility that all-out burning of coal would pour so much carbon dioxide into the air as to keep heat from escaping out of the atmosphere into space. Theoretical consequences that some scientists like to cite: warming of the earth, melting of the polar ice caps, flooding of the world's seacoast cities. In fact, there is no known way of producing energy without some environmental danger...
...beseech God for favors, either material or spiritual, so much as for guidance and mercy. The word Islam means submission, and the true Muslim submits his life to the divine will of a deity who is the Compassionate, the All Knowing, the Strong, the Protector, the All Powerful-to cite only a few of the traditional 99 "most Beautiful Names...
With that in mind, Diebold likes to cite a sculpture he once saw of two bronze figures in angry confrontation. Its title: Impossible. Diebold is convinced that the prime challenge facing U.S. enterprise is to head off the threat of impossible confrontations between the company and its employees, and between business and society...