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...summit started with a bang. During a series of welcoming ceremonies for the leaders (from the U.S., Britain, France, West Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada) at Akasaka Palace, five homemade missiles fired from crude tubes in an apartment window nearby sailed over their target and fell harmlessly to earth. The summiteers were hardly fazed. When asked if he was disturbed by the rockets, Reagan quipped, "No, they missed...
...four huge RBMK-1000 reactors at Chernobyl were mighty but in many ways outdated machines. "It's a crude technology," said a senior Administration official. "They haven't changed it in 30 years." Although capable of producing 1,000 MW of power (vs. 850 MW for a typical U.S. nuclear generator), the Chernobyl unit had some design features dating back to the atomic pile that Enrico Fermi used in 1942 to create the world's first chain reaction at the University of Chicago's Stagg Field. Both systems employed graphite to moderate the nuclear reaction. Most U.S. units regulate with...
...sacrificed so that she might improve her standing in society, mourns loudly over the disastrous course she has chosen. She remembers instead how her father and Rajee agreed to her marriage after she had poured kerosene over her clothes and prepared to set herself on fire: "It is a crude method and perhaps not suitable for a college girl like me, but it was the only way I could think of and also the easiest and cheapest, so I decided...
...months. Gorbachev's energy policy toward his allies has been equally tough. Their main source of imported power is Soviet oil, but supplies have been cut back by as much as 30% in the past six years. At the same time, East European countries are forced to buy Soviet crude at two times or more the price on world markets. All the while, Soviet leaders have been dragging the rest of the bloc into huge cooperative industrial projects that drain them of the technology and manpower needed for hard-currency exports to the West. The most ambitious joint program, launched...
...state, which has boomed over the last 10 years thanks to high oil prices? Fact is, Mr. Presidential candidate, that most of America has struggled against rising energy prices to maintain its standard of living--and in New England struggled to keep warm enough to stay alive--as your crude cronies got rich...