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...fault of the technician. The disruption began, Ontario Hydro explained last week, when a backup relay -a breadbox-size fuse-blew on power line Q-29BW after Ontario had been requested by Syracuse to up the voltage. The blowout disconnected the line from service; when Q-29BW's load transferred automatically to four other trunk lines running westward out of Beck, they were knocked out as well. With no place to go, the peak-hour power buildup reversed its flow, cascaded eastward through two 230,000-volt tie lines across Niagara Gorge. In a wave that lasted only five...
...Ontario Hydro officials said that they could find no mechanical defect in Q-29BW's backup fuse. Then why did it blow? The question created a behind-the-scenes divergence between U.S. and Canadian power experts. Privately, American officials expressed doubts about the design of the backup relay system in service at the Beck plant. But Ontario Hydro officials claimed that its protective safeguards were comparable to those in use on U.S. high-voltage lines. Robert H. Hillery, Ontario Hydro's operations director, insisted that the disconnect-setting of Beck's backup fuses "was well above...
...workers and Sohyo union members, as they marched past hordes of riot cops in blue plastic helmets with Plexiglas face shields. Then the drizzle gave way to a pelting downpour, and what had been billed as the boldest anti-government "demo" in five years sputtered out like a drenched fuse...
Thus, though he had been ordered by the judge to confine his argument strictly to the facts of the arrest, Prosecutor Fountain, 28, insisted on adding that the fuse lighted by the Fryes turned into the five-day Watts riot that took 34 lives, cost millions in property damage, and "left a blight on our city's history that may take 50 to 100 years to erase." The prosecution contended that the patrolmen had not used excessive force on the Fryes. The defense argued that the officers' unjustifiably rough treatment of the brothers excused Mrs. Frye...
...force that through the green fuse drives the flower...