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...with the appearance of an article by Zhores Medvedev, an exiled Soviet biologist now living in London. In it, he claimed that the Soviets had carelessly stored radioactive wastes in shallow burial facilities. As the debris accumulated, he wrote, radioactive decay caused the material to overheat and, finally, to erupt like a volcano. The first response to this assertion was pronounced skepticism, even among Western experts. The CIA said there had been nothing but a minor accident, and the chairman of Britain's Atomic Energy Authority dismissed the theory as "a figment of the imagination...
White interviewed crime victims' relatives, police officers and academics in New York and other Eastern cities. In Chicago, Correspondent Don Winbush reported from neighborhoods afflicted by youth-gang violence. He observes, "All around me were decent, hardworking, caring, strong-willed people. How could senseless, callous acts of violence erupt so frequently...
Anyone composing a personal ad faces an inherent credibility problem. While we are accustomed to the self-promotions of politicians, say, we sense something bizarre when ordinary people erupt in small rhapsodies of self- celebration that are occasioned by loneliness and longing. One is haunted by almost piteous cries that come with post-office-box number attached: "Is there anyone out there? Anyone out there...
...part of the movie's appeal, regardless of ideology. Rambo has echoes of half a dozen movie heroes of old, from Tarzan to Shane, and his Vietnamese and Soviet foes are updated versions of the malevolent Japanese and Germans from World War II films. The cheers that erupt in the theater as the body count soars are coming largely from young moviegoers whose only previous encounter with Viet Nam may have been a question on The Hollywood Squares. "The movie doesn't have a lot to do with Viet Nam and how we felt when we were there," says Josiah...
...find the exalted spirituality expected among the primitives. The Dowayos are placid people, devoted to ribald joking, sexual freedom, wife beating and an unusual beer that Barley says "enables one to pass directly from sobriety to hangover without an intervening stage of drunkenness." Every so often, the natives erupt in frenzied skull-cult ceremonies, but basically nothing much else ever happens in the culture: "Dowayos seldom if ever seemed to do anything, have any beliefs or engage in symbolic activity. They just existed...