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...Because our government was just as stingy with public information about Three Mile Island (TMI) as Moscow has been about its catastrophe. Because the U.S. government's attitude about reactor safety is just about as lax as we've been claiming Moscow's is. And because the same disaster could happen here...
AMERICA HAS no ground for its holier-than-thou attitude toward Moscow. The government has been negligently lax about enforcing reactor safety in this country...
...fallout caused an international uproar against the Soviet Union for its lax safety measures and its concealment of the fact that the dangerous radiation was floating toward neighboring countries. Moreover, the accident seemed certain to put the worldwide use of nuclear power under still sharper attacks. In West Germany, the antinuclear Greens quickly staged protest rallies under banners bearing the slogan CHERNOBYL IS EVERYWHERE...
Throughout the United States, criminals are serving shorter sentences--not because the good in human nature is on the rise or because justice is getting lax in its standards, but simply because overcrowding has reached epidemic proportions in prisons...
...House's 292-130 vote in favor of the NRA complements the Senate's overwhelming vote in favor of lax gun laws last year. Neither the Senate nor the House would allow complete hearings, with the majority of both bodies accepting at face value the NRA's word that gun control had been debated enough already. Ironically, in defending its interpretation of the Second Amendment, the NRA is willing to subordinate legislative process. And, as the vote has shown, that's okay with Congress...