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...Vellucci's supporters rallied quickly. While Vellucci has stated he does not know why Antonelli was supended, some of his supporters hint the department's action was little more than a slap on the wrist, a face-saving move designed to end the political firestorm as quickly as possible. They contend that the supervisor did not deserve a suspension but the reprimand was an easy way to avert a long investigation. Two weeks ago The Real Paper--like Vellucci, a staunch advocate of rent control--lashed out at the Globe report as "sleazy journalism." The "Spotlight Team," it noted, trailed...
...Jimmy Carter will unveil his controversial energy conservation program?the most comprehensive ever proposed by a President. The energy package reaches from automobiles to attics and from vacuum cleaners to wellheads in an effort to end America's profligate use of energy. It is almost certain to ignite a firestorm of protest?and to provide Carter with his most difficult test as a politician and as Chief Executive. Predicts chief Carter Aide Hamilton Jordan: "This will be a measure of Carter's ability to lead the country. It is a greater test of his leadership than any other single issue...
Despite its mushroom crop of high-rise reinforced-concrete buildings, the city today is a worse firetrap than ever. Ichiro Uchibaba, an auto repairman who, as a boy of eight, survived the 1923 quake and firestorm, says: "It's worse today-these 2,000,000 cars and 3,000,-000 kerosene stoves in Tokyo are potential bombs. They would cause millions of fires...
...opera house that night, the first wave of bombers thundered over the lovely cupolas, towers and spires of the doomed city. In the next 14 hours, 1,400 British Lancasters and American Flying Fortresses dropped 3,749 tons of explosives. Some 650,000 incendiary bombs created a swirling "firestorm" that sucked everything around it into the inferno's center. Columns of smoke plumed three miles into the glowing sky as the city burned for eight nights. Corpses, some shrunk to 3 ft. by the intense, fiery heat, littered the ground. Anywhere from 35,000 to 135,000 civilians perished...
...between past, present and future. We see a real statement from a church council supporting nuclear war. Then a close-up of the terrified face of a nurse saying, Their bodies are just falling apart. A young couple carrying their son, who has been blinded by the glare. A "firestorm"--blasts of wind so fierce that they crush the firemen and their equipment. Watkins says that nuclear war is unthinkable, beyond the worst nightmares of madmen and fools--and an all-too-possible extension of current problems...