Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since the near disaster at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear plant, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has been debating whether to order the shutdown of other nukes designed and built by the same company, Babcock & Wilcox. Some of the watchdog agency's critics have had no...
In England, that is. In 1974 the Sunday Times took its case to the 25-year-old European Commission of Human Rights in Strasbourg. When the commission decided the Sunday Times case was worth hearing a year later, the English government and the courts began backing down. By then, it...
"Strasbourg has always felt that it must go cautiously for fear that national governments will pull the rug out from under it," says Cedric Thornberry, an international lawyer who has brought more than 100 cases to Strasbourg. Indeed, the human rights commission refuses to hear most cases and tries to...
Britain, in fact, is the commission's best client. In the past three years Strasbourg has received 398 complaints against the British government, more than against any other country. Unlike many other European countries, England does not recognize the European human rights convention as national law. Its own constitution...
...after many years during which the Federal Communications Commission almost strangled the industry's growth by severely restricting the number of signals that cable operators could transmit. The FCC began to ease up in 1972, and last week it took a long further step: the agency's commissioners voted 6 to 1 in favor of a proposal to allow cable operators to pick up signals from as many distant broadcast-TV stations as they wish. Currently, there is in most cities a limit of two-so that a cable operator in Peoria, Ill., say, may show its viewers...