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...twist to the usual scenario of politicians children being docked for speeding. Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh came under fire last month for using state troopers to whisk his sons--one of whom is a K-School student--from Harrisburg to Cambridge. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Thornburgh used state funds to pay for several trips this year. According to the Inquirer, the trips, including hotel rooms for the cops, were paid out of state coffers...
...seemed sincerely frustrated. "Sometimes I think I'm living in two different worlds-what I do and what I read I do." Why had the day's news reports, he asked, not mentioned the remarkable size of the crowd the day before in Harrisburg? How about his creditable performance before a tough Jewish organization? Why is the press so willfully skeptical, so predisposed to declare Gary Hart a passing fancy...
...been frighteningly right. "I had been a nuclear believer," says Stoler. "I had just seen the film The China Syndrome, and called it farfetched because the chances seemed infinitesimal that so many things could go wrong and in the necessary sequence. A week later I was in Harrisburg, with a line from the film running through my head: 'If this thing melts down, it will render an area the size of Pennsylvania permanently uninhabitable...
Rising 372 ft. into the clear wintry air, the cooling towers of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant dominate the skyline just southeast of the Pennsylvania state capital at Harrisburg. Interstate motorists can spot them as they speed across the Susquehanna River on the Pennsylvania Turnpike; local drivers cannot help seeing them when they reach the top of a long hill on Route 283 and head southeast toward Swatara. Three Mile Island also dominates the thoughts of people who live in the area's small towns and rolling farm lands. "I can't look at those things without...
...warning was accidentally sent out by two Harrisburg AT&T technicians who were installing new emergency teletype equipment. Most county officials chose not to broadcast the message before they could confirm it. Even in alerted Allentown, Lehigh County's largest city, most residents took the sirens, some dating back to World War II, for fire alarms. Said one practical-minded Pennsylvanian: "An alarm system really wouldn't matter if there was a nuclear war anyway...