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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Normally liberal Senators like Frank Church (D-Ida.) found themselves arguing in favor of home-state nuclear interests and against non-proliferation. Church called Carter's policy "a formula for nuclear isolation." Tennessee's pork-barreling delegation plus other, more conservative members of Congress who don't seem to find plutonium all that dangerous, took more blatantly pro-nuclear positions. Rep. Mike McCormick (D-Wash.), a big breeder booster, said "not developing the breeder is like saying we shouldn't have automobiles because somebody can make a Molotov cocktail out of gasoline...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: Breeder Politics | 5/5/1978 | See Source »

There is an argument to be made in favor of the playwright, suggesting that the link between the plays was essentially a political one. In this light, Figaro would have to stress the inequality of the friendship between man and master, as seen in Count Almaviva's failure to return Figaro's help in the second half of the play. That argument, however, would have little evidence to support it except the final chorus, which includes lines like, "But hear the thunder from the left, denouncing property as theft," and is sung to the tun of the British Labour Party...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: ...Two Plays in One | 5/5/1978 | See Source »

...School Faculty yesterday voted unanimously in favor of sending a proposal for pass/fail option courses at the Law School to the Harvard Committee on Legal Education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law School | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...other topics; or it could, if it chose, decide to take an ethical stand in several areas. Since it is finally committed to evaluating corporate activities in South Africa, and to taking a moral position, the Corporation should act on its findings. Considering that the Corporation rejects divestiture in favor of "working within the system" it is only right that it uses its influence as effectively as possible within the corporate structure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Corporation's South Africa Investment Decision | 5/3/1978 | See Source »

...British, whose Doppler system is built by Plessey Co., Ltd., insist that the U.S. scanning beam is clearly inferior. They also contend that computer simulations done for the FAA at M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory were biased in favor of the American MLS. Some U.S. experts, including a former FAA administrator, John H. Shaffer, agree. But after technical presentations and demonstrations of both devices in Montreal, the ICAO experts voted 39 to 24 in favor of the American system. The U.S. scanning beam has won a crucial round in the quest for a prize that eventually may be worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A New MLS, But Whose? | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

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