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...hearing he convened on the plant's evacuation procedure, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) led an attack against NRC officials in a packed Amesbury High School auditorium. Amesbury is one of six Massachusetts communities within a 10-mile radius of the idle New Hampshire power plant...
Barrett served as a State Representative from Reading, Mass. until 1984, when a game of musical chairs similar to this year's left him standing at the end. U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas announced his retirement for health reasons, and his vacated seat attracted U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Malden) as a candidate. Markey's empty position, in turn, drew a large field of candidates, including Barrett...
...when Markey withdrew from the Senate race to run for his old seat, he caused a reverse chain reaction, since a race against such a strong incumbent would have been political suicide. Barrett learned of Markey's decision on the day when he would have filed campaign papers to seek reelection. Unable to meet the deadline, he was left without any elected office...
This week's trivia question comes from Harvard Sports Information Director Ed Markey, who asks, "What do the members of the Harvard basketball team and our soldiers in Viet Nam have in common?" Answer below...
Mark Weinberg, spokesman for the presidential commission investigating the Challenger disaster, told the Globe yesterday night he did not know whether William P. Rogers, commission chairman, had received Markey's letter...