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...Allende fell and his country experienced a similar fate, can Nicaragua expect to 'meet the new boss, same as the old boss," as The Who put despite State Department fears for the worse, is actually comprised mostly of businessmen and U.S.-educated professionals, including only two hard-core leftist guerillas...
Hackett really loses his credibility, though, when he shyly evades the issues which should be at the core of any "third world war" scenario. Nuclear deterrence is a distasteful and outmoded phrase to General Sir John. In his rush to prove that "flexible response" makes a 1980s European land war a possibility, he conveniently forgets that this policy evolved to meet Soviet threats, real or perceived, in odd corners of the world. Places like Vietnam, not West Germany. European strategic thought should still be based firmly on the existence of nuclear stockpiles on both sides. If Hackett represents a style...
...regime should represent all shades of Nicaraguan political opinion. Among its members are Corporate Lawyer Joachin Cuadra Chamorro, Carlos Tünnermann Bernheim, who was rector of the National University, and Cesar Amador Khull, a former officer of the Inter-American Development Bank. There are only two hard-core radicals: a Sandinista commander, Tomás Borge Martinez, who was appointed Interior Minister, and the Rev. Ernesto Cardenál Martinez, a radical priest who was named Minister of Culture...
...earlier to bring the plant back on line are now reinserted. That "scrams," or shuts down, the reactor. Higginbotham and Helton move swiftly too, throwing switches, isolating complex plumbing and carefully monitoring critical meters as the emergency cooling system pours hundreds of gallons of cold water into the core. "Pressure's holding pretty good," says Higginbotham. Sighs Helton: "I think we're all right...
...typical day for Higginbotham and Helton begins with a lecture, then moves on to mathematical exercises-say, computing the rate at which heat will be produced by withdrawing control rods from the reactor's core. But the most important training is the "hands-on," or practical, instruction. The classroom is a gleaming, $3 million air-conditioned simulation of the control rooms in 42 G.E. reactors now in operation around the country. With one important difference: the training center's controls are connected to a computer, not a reactor. Jokes Instructor Jerry Maher: "We have everything but Jane Fonda...