Word: clearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clear that the grounds of the long national debate over nuclear energy have now shifted drastically. For many years the foes of nuclear power, for all their protest rallies, "clamshell alliances" and sit-ins, were very much on the defensive. Their complaints about plant safety had lacked credibility; the exigencies of the nation's energy crisis were unarguable; the fragility and risk, to some degree inherent in many parts of an advanced industrial society, had a common-sense acceptance as inevitable. But the price of progress, like the price of anything, has a ceiling, and for the nuclear power industry...
...chief operations officer, Harold Denton, to Three Mile Island. He carried with him legal authority to take complete charge, overruling plant officials if he thought it necessary. Carter also called Governor Thornburgh and asked how the state could be helped. Citing overloaded telephone circuits, Thornburgh asked for a clear line. Carter dispatched an entire communications team to tie the Governor's office in to the plant, NRC headquarters in Washington, and the White House...
...hour cost of living increase due to the union on April 1 under the expiring contract should not be counted in the cost of a new settlement. That was expected to clinch the deal. But after the talks broke down, Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons made it clear that the Administration's efforts to impose its guidelines had been a key factor in the decision to strike. "Interference by high-level government bureaucrats," he growled, "played no small part...
...State for Northern Ireland in a Thatcher Cabinet. It was the second assassination of a British official in as many weeks. Neave may have written his own epitaph with his views on I.R.A. terrorism: "The British public will become more resistant than ever." Still, the I.R.A. had made it clear that no official could feel safe as Britain begins five weeks of campaigning...
...closing days of the regime, Libya was busy supplying Amin's troops with fuel and small arms. Libyan army instructors also tried frantically to improve both the skill and morale of units still loyal to Amin. The reasons for Libyan support are not clear, though it may be that Gaddafi wanted to support a fellow Muslim in order to preserve an Islamic "belt" running from Libya through Chad (where Libyan-supported guerrillas now control the government), Uganda and Somalia. Gaddafi's involvement, however, carries wider implications for Africa. Libyan planes in support of Amin used Nairobi International Airport...