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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reorganization of its administration sounds right, but not by the late Hubert Humphrey's plan of adding another specialized agency that deals with foreign affairs and finance, yet is not accountable to either the State or Treasury departments. That's streamlining? Help...
Most of the bow-shaped island, stretching 100 miles from the Mexican border to Corpus Christi, is either undeveloped dunes or federally protected national seashore. But at the island's southern tip is South Padre Island, a town of 700 permanent residents and, on weekends, as many as 50,000 sun seekers. Only 20 miles from Mexico via the causeway to Brownsville, South Padre has a comparable latitude-and, partisans assert, a more congenial climate-than Miami. Says former Mayor John Austin, a retired Marine Corps major and avid fisherman: "I really think the possibilities here are unlimited...
...threatening bubble had dissolved. The radiation readings outside Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear power plant were nearing normal. Slowly the nightmare was ending without anyone receiving a lethal overdose of radiation, either inside the plant or out. The 100,000 or so of the area's 650,000 residents who had left started to trickle home, although many children and pregnant women, on the advice of Governor Richard Thornburgh, were staying away until the government said flatly that the reactor that had so nearly run away was safe...
...Harrisburg, hasty judgments, formed in response either to panic or to glib reassurances that nothing much was amiss, could lock the nation into a misguided energy policy damaging to the health, welfare and productive strength...
...plant sites, but nuclear plants are running out of pool space. Some may have to shut down as early as 1983 unless a more permanent method of disposal is found. Nuclear plants are built to operate for about 35 years. By the year 2000 some worn-out ones will either have to be torn down or sealed up so that no radiation escapes. No one yet knows how to safely dismantle or seal off a reactor, though Three Mile Island may provide some insights about that...