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...leaflets warning that radiation on the site is still above average levels. A booklet adds that it is only one-fifth as great as the radiation received from a chest X ray. No eating, drinking or smoking is permitted within the ten-acre, fenced-in area around ground zero, lest radioactive materials be ingested. "What's a little radiation?" scoffs 14-year-old Lee Hutchinson, visiting Trinity for the second time. "It's bad at Three Mile Island because that's in the middle of civilization. But this is really in the middle of nothing...
...Saudis were especially worried lest a resumption of American shipments goad...
...this country in its ninth year of martial law. During the presidential campaign, the State Department has a vested interest in keeping the situation "stable" and, more important, quiet, President Carter (and accordingly, Secretary of State. Edmund Muskie) cannot afford to have another military dictatorship ally fall this week, lest he be open to charges of "softness" from his Republican opponent...
Israel found itself in the novel position of being a noncombatant in a Middle East conflict. But Israeli officials expressed concern over the Syrian-Soviet treaty, lest it open the door for the stationing of Soviet troops in Syria. The new flirtation between Jordan and Iraq, not to mention the presence of Soviet supply ships in Aqaba harbor, was also worrisome to the Israelis. Warned Prime Minister Menachem Begin: "King Hussein has forgotten the lesson of the 1967 Six-Day War [when Jordan lost East Jerusalem and the West Bank by coming to Egypt's aid] and is jumping...
Some of Schmidt's colleagues were disappointed that the S.P.D. had gained so little, an increase of only .3% in the popular vote, to 42.9%. In fact, Schmidt had done little to dispel the impression that he never wanted his own party to win an absolute majority, lest its obstreperous left wing get out of control...