Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signed "John" thanking Sears for sending Mitchell a packet of letters spelling out Vesco's SEC troubles. He received thousands of letters as Attorney General, said Mitchell, and many were routinely answered by Justice Department secretaries without his ever seeing them. He also denied agreeing on Jan. 12, 1972, to set up a meeting for Sears with William J. Casey, then SEC chairman, to discuss the Vesco case...
...JAN MORRIS 174 pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
...desolate plot of weeds was once the Saturn I complex, the scene of the space program's worst disaster: a flash fire that on Jan. 27, 1967, cost the lives of Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, and came very close to fatally dampening national enthusiasm for space flight as well. Recently, launch towers and other equipment at the complex that cost $68 million were sold as scrap...
RELIABILITY. A report by the AEC'S top safety experts notes that between Jan. 1, 1972, and May 30, 1973, "approximately 850 abnormal occurrences" in nuclear plant operations were reported to the AEC. Critics use the figure to cast doubt on the reliability of nuclear plants. AEC Chairman Dixy Lee Ray cites the same figure to show how tough regulatory practices are. Both have some justification. Nuclear plants have had more than their share of operating mishaps, ranging from breaks in steam pipes to discoveries of defective welding and corrosion of reactor parts. But all the troubles were caught...
...people killed in the smoldering civil conflict since 1969 to 998. In addition, 28 were wounded in bombings by extremists of the Provisional Irish Republican Army that devastated Belfast and three other towns. The violence further threatened already fading hopes that a Catholic-Protestant coalition Cabinet inaugurated on Jan. 1 would finally bring to a halt the unrelenting agony of the province. In the three months since the coalition took over, there have been more than 60 violent deaths and 200 explosions...