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...19th case, "Salvage Consultant" Travis McGee is back in form. The Florida-based knight-errant exhibited signs of age in his last few outings. His likable brawn and cunning intelligence were eroded by diatribes about the deteriorating environment and the credit-card society. Fans began to worry about behavior alteration...
...next five years her death sparked rallies and candlelight processions in New York, Chicago, St. Petersburg and Cleveland. A symbol for the feminists, the environmentalists, and the labor movement, her name was shouted at Seabrook and invoked in union halls. In 1979, when a federal court jury found Kerr-McGee guilty of negligience and awarded the Silkwood estate $10.5 million in damages, her picture made the front pages of papers across the nation. She became what Richard Rashke calls "a nuclear martyr...
...facts. Shunning the emotional, he explores in depth the allegations and evidence on all sides of the Silkwood saga. What emerges is a clear and well-documented case, which strongly suggests that Silkwood's death was not purely accidental, and that the cover-up involved not only Kerr-McGee and the AEC, but the FBI and perhaps even the Justice Department itself, Rashke does not draw a final conclusion, because as he notes, all the evidence...
Drawing on his experience as an investigative reporter. Rashke carries the reader though the early years of Silkwood's life, the months she spent at Kerr-McGee, the FBI and Senate hearings that followed her death, and ultimately the battle in federal court. He describes her married and personal life, her use of prescribed quaaludes as a sedative, and her leading role in the fight for union represenation at Kerr-McGee's Cimarron plant. All of these factors become important later, when Rashke examines company and FBI portrayals of Silkwood as an emotionally disturbed, sexually promiscuous drug addict, who poisoned...
...evidence points in one direction: Kerr McGee was grossly neglig ent in its handling of the plutonium. Plant executives resented Silkwood's attempts to publicize the unsafe working conditions. Karen Silkwood was mentally competent, emotionally stable and awake on the November day when her white Honda slid across the road and crashed into a culvert. The investigations that followed were both cursory and inadequate. More tenuous but still plausible, is his contention that someone tried to prevent Silkwood from delivering her evidence, and inadvertently ran her off the road...