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...last Wednesday, the Pennsylvania emergency management agency in Harrisburg relayed that message to 44 county civil defense agencies. A conscientious civil defense worker in Lehigh County set off the nuclear-attack sirens and was about to contact the Emergency Broadcast System, which warns localities of a nuclear attack, when at 11:18 a.m. he received another message: "Disregard...
Wham! He hit, and last week the retired steelworker from Harrisburg, Pa., got a check for $336,157.56 (with 20% off the top for Uncle Sam), the first of 21 annual payments. Jorich plans to use the money to buy a new Cadillac, a beach house for his wife, a college education for his granddaughter and more lottery tickets. Why? "I need pocket money...
...nuclear power industry could also take heart from another Supreme Court ruling last week: the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) need not consider the psychological effects on local residents of reopening the undamaged reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility near Harrisburg, Pa. The plant's other reactor had broken down on March 28, 1979; neither has been operating since. Leaders of People Against Nuclear Energy (PANE), the citizens group that challenged the startup, were disappointed but vowed to continue their fight. With NRC approval, however, Metropolitan Edison Co., which operates the plant, hopes to reopen the unharmed reactor...
Charles A. Gilmore Harrisburg...
...implied on the campaign trail that Republican Governor Richard Thornburgh bore part of the blame for a shooting spree by a deranged prison guard who killed 13 last month in Wilkes-Barre. In retaliation, Thornburgh put ads on television charging that his challenger was "silent" when white policemen in Harrisburg began selling Ku Klux Klan pins. Republican Congressman Cooper Evans of Iowa has been running commercials charging that Opponent Lynn Cutler was absent from 25% of her meetings of the Black Hawk County board of supervisors. Democrat Cutler responded by attacking Evans for missing 40% of the meetings...