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...buildings will still eliminate at least 35 housing units, and probably more after the exact boundaries of the structures are determined. Con-struction on the hospitals may start by the end of the year although the low-income housing to replace the buildings torn down won't be started until next spring, according to John Sharrat, the builder working with Roxbury tenants on the housing plans...
...making it clear who this "NLF support group" was might have made the issues clear. Support for the NLF was only one of several issues, and certainly was no more significant than support for working class struggles. SDS at present has no official position pro or con on the NLF leadership, but supports the struggle of the Vietnamese people concretely by leading militant fights against the war in this country (against ROTC, CFIA, military recruiters on campus...
...same time that the government of South Vietnam has delayed, from February to March or even later, invitations to petroleum companies to bid on offshore oil concessions. These concessions are located in the Gulf of Thailand and the south-east offshore region adjacent to the penal colony of Con Son. The Thien-Ky government has not yet determined if it will offer all 18 offshore leases in a block or whether it will stretch out the leasing over a period of months to the 21 contending companies, which are mostly American...
...Although a reactor cannot sustain a nuclear explosion, the presence of many hundreds of tons of material which is one billion times more toxic than any known industrial substance is an unparalleled hazard, especially during fuel replacement. Such replacement is an extraordinarily delicate operation and, in the case of Con Edison's Indian Point ?I plant at Buchanan, N. Y., took six weeks during which 40 of the 120 fuel elements were removed, each weighing nearly four tons...
...shale, oil, natural gas-and that geothermal, fusion, solar, magneto-hydrodynamics and other clean power technologies are just around the corner, why the rush for fission? These other power technologies haven't been given a chance. The AEC spends 83 per cent of its research dollar on fission power. Con Edison spent more on advertising last year than on all research. In fact, over ten times as much is spent on advertising for electricity as is spent on research into non-fission power sources...