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When Stanley Watras, a Bechtel Group engineer assigned to the Limerick nuclear-power plant in Boyertown, Pa., set off radiation monitors last winter, that in itself was unusual. Nuclear-plant workers rarely come into contact with radioactive substances during their daily routine. What disturbed Watras even more was that he tripped the detectors not while he was leaving the nuclear complex but when he was entering it. As a result, he requested that Limerick's owner, Philadelphia Electric Co. (PECO), check radiation levels at his house in Colebrookdale, Pa., a few miles from the plant...
...post-operative call on Ronald Reagan until last Wednesday, National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane not until Thursday. But Chief of Staff Donald Regan shuttled between his White House office and the Bethesda bedside all week, constituting, with Nancy Reagan, the President's principal contact with the outside world and becoming, for all intents and purposes, the chief operating officer...
...effective in other situations. Said Shultz: "If you say the alternative is for the U.S. to remove itself, stop all investment, I don't see that that is taking you where you want to go. You reduce what influence and leverage you have, and you don't have any contact." Just in case the message was not heard clearly enough in Pretoria, White House Press Secretary Larry Speakes told a press briefing late in the week that "we want the state of emergency removed ... The real cause of violence in South Africa is apartheid...
...continues to double every ten months. So far, 73% of those stricken by the disease have been homosexual or bisexual men, 17% intravenous drug users and 1% hemophiliacs. But the rest of the victims are people from all walks of life, contaminated perhaps through blood transfusions or through sexual contact with infected prostitutes, addicts and others. "This is not really a disease of homosexuality at all," says Dr. Alexandra Levine of the University of Southern California. "It is spread by sexual contact of any kind--homosexual or heterosexual. This is a disease...
...gentlemen's sports" of golf, tennis and yachting all moved smartly out of the summer pleasure domes of the upper class during the past four decades. But polo, the world's toniest contact sport, remained haughtily and expensively cloistered. No more. On weekend afternoons around the country, crowds of tailgating fans show up to watch scores of horses thunder across neatly turfed ten-acre greenswards. Willow mallets whistle--pock--as high-charging riders smack a 4-oz. white wooden ball. Brooks Fire-stone, 49, of the tire Firestones, reports, "It's no longer a social, rich man's game...