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Conservative Moral Theologian Germain Grisez of Mount St. Mary's College in Maryland sees John Paul's cleanup as one of historic proportions, comparing it with Pope Pius X's effort early in the century to crush the modernist movement. That dispute, says Grisez, "was basically a much smaller thing than what's happening now." Similarly underscoring the significance of the situation, the Vatican's official spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, stated last week that "this phenomenon of dissent, in the U.S. and elsewhere, touches the very nature of the church. The real question is no longer abortion, or even moral...
...Natural Resources Defense Council, contended that the initial 24,000 figure was probably far too low. While the experts argued, workers labored to restore the land around Chernobyl. A newspaper in Soviet Estonia reported that military reservists from that Baltic republic were being forced to participate in the Chernobyl cleanup. The men were said to be working 14-hour days washing down buildings and trees and digging up contaminated topsoil. "They are like squirrels in a running wheel," wrote Journalist Tonis Avikson. He noted that the reservists staged work stoppages when their Chernobyl tour of duty was extended from...
...painstaking and dangerous cleanup operation provided a grim backdrop for the Vienna talks. Throughout the week, the Soviets stuck to the assertion in their written report that the accident could easily have been avoided. In a five-hour presentation, Legasov explained that the operators of the Chernobyl reactor, while testing a turbine generator, had systematically disconnected all safety systems. That left nothing to prevent the accident after a huge power surge shot through the facility, setting off explosions and fires. Said Legasov: "The defect of the system was that the designers did not foresee the awkward and silly actions...
...investigation of the accident is completed, but the cleanup effort at Chernobyl continues. In recent weeks it has been slowed to a crawl by a series of technical troubles. The biggest problem is to encase the reactor, which is still emitting dangerous radioactive particles, in a concrete tomb. The Soviets have run short of cement and have had to install a ventilation system to prevent heat buildup, which might cause new fires and explosions. The Communist Party daily Pravda has criticized the slowness of the effort, pointing out that three other nuclear reactors located on the site cannot resume operation...
...helped manage the U.S. approach to the acid-rain problem. And that approach, says Deaver, was designed solely to get the President through the Ottawa summit in harmony with the Canadians. Strange thing, he notes. Everybody seems to love the acid-rain proposal, a public-private cleanup over five years. "You'd think the conservationists would be marching for me," Deaver laughed. "I haven't seen them...