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Although Wentzell's team may not post scores worthy of the gridiron, his starting lineup is still one of the best in the area. Third baseman Pat Horne brings otherwordly stats--a .627 batting average, five home runs, 31 runs scored and 31 RBIs--to the cleanup spot, and players like catcher Gill Raney and centerfielder Jakoyic should take advantage of the recent exodus...
...clatter of mess-hall cleanup had just given way to the nocturnal sounds of the jungle when Sergeant Manit Kammung and 800 other Thai Border Patrol Police suddenly received orders for a maneuver in the north. Armed with assault rifles, grenades, recoilless rifles and rocket launchers, the men clambered aboard trucks and rode all night through the newly harvested rice fields of central Thailand. Finally the trucks began to growl up the narrow roads that climb to the Golden Triangle, the opium-rich territory where the borders of Thailand, Burma and Laos converge...
Central to the argument is the Clean Air Act, one of the more successful and popular pieces of environmental legislation to emerge from Congress. Passed in 1970 at a time of heightened concern about pollution, the law empowered the Environmental Protection Agency to begin a much needed atmospheric cleanup. It required the EPA to set strict limits on seven major pollutants, including toxic agents such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and lead. It mandated steady reductions in emissions from automotive tail pipes and factory smokestacks. It also gave the EPA power to force the states, some of whom showed little...
Despite protests and omissions, the Administration insists that the new bill will continue the cleanup of the nation's air, but at what EPA Chief Anne Gorsuch calls "a more reasoned pace." Some House Democrats from industrial states, notably Michigan's John Dingell, head of the Energy and Commerce Committee, have given it strong support. But, as in 1981, there is no shortage of opponents. In the Republican-controlled Senate, Vermont's Robert Stafford, chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, has pledged to keep the 1970 Clean Air Act as is, except for minor revisions...
...valve did open, the accident goes down in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) as only a "serious failure." Rochester Gas-and Electric assured Ginna's neighbors that only "minimal" radioactivity had escaped, and set about persuading the State Public Service Commission to make customers pay for the six-month cleanup...