Word: governors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...became a New York City-based correspondent in 1977. Accompanied by Photographer Bill Pierce, Stoler began the assignment with an early-morning high-speed drive on a rainswept turnpike to Harrisburg. For the next three days, Stoler interviewed plant workers, area residents and protesters, and visited the Pennsylvania Governor's offices, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission vania Governor's offices, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission control van parked on a knoll directly across the Susquehanna River from the plant and a refugee center set up in an amusement park. "I don't know how much radiation...
They could hardly have been more wrong. For the next several days, radioactive steam and gas seeped sporadically into the atmosphere from the plant. Pennsylvania Governor Richard Thornburgh advised the evacuation of all pregnant women and preschool children living within five miles of Three Mile Island, and thousands of people fled the area. As tension mounted, engineers struggled to cool the reactor's core. There was a genuine danger of a "meltdown," in which the core could drop into the water coolant at the bottom of its chamber, causing a steam explosion that could rupture the 4-ft.-thick concrete...
...this time, in Harrisburg, Lieut Governor William Scranton III expressed alarm that he might be getting inaccurate reports from plant officials. He told reporters: "This situation is more complex than the company first led us to believe. Metropolitan Edison has given you and us conflicting information." Indeed federal investigators from the nearby headquarters of the NRC in King of Prussia reported later in the day that radio activity had been detected as far as 16 miles from the plant, and claimed that radiation within the reactor containment building had risen to a startling 1,000 times its normal level...
...governor, pleading a busy schedule, refused to meet with student demonstrators, who chanted "King is a mega-wimp" Wednesday. "We just wanted to jar him up a bit. Nothing ever gets through," Christopher R. Agee '79, one of four protesters police allowed to reach the governor's office before being turned away, said later...
That is why Brown's fiscal conservatism makes no political sense. Carter is under fire from the urban groups--labor, blacks, and old-fashioned liberals--within his party. Brown has no room to maneuver on Carter's right without becoming a Republican. His inaugural address as Governor, in which he joined some 20-odd state legislatures in calling for a constitutional amendment for a balanced budget, greatly displeased the leadership of the AFL-CIO. He hurried to mollify them, unsuccessfully, at their gathering in Miami. If Brown has visions of wooing the Jarvis vote, he should consider who is more...