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Unfortunately, the history of Congressional neglect, of public rights toward the nuclear power industry has been exacerbated by the Supreme Court and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Writing for the majority in Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power v. Natural Resources Defence Council (1978), Justice Rehnquist held that community and environmental representatives had...

Author: By William August, | Title: The Law and Nuclear Power | 5/15/1979 | See Source »

Next day an obscure group called Forghan sent a letter to a Tehran newspaper saying it had killed the Ayatullah. Government officials later confirmed that Motahari had been a council member. Although little was known about Forghan, a Persian word that is both a synonym for the Koran and a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Death of an Ayatullah | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

Thomas' "error," a word he traces back to an old root meaning "to wander about, looking for something," occurred in 1970, when he put together a short, casual talk on the phenomenon of inflammation and what it might represent as a biological process. He delivered it at a symposium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Celebration of Life | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

It is also important to understand that the University's lack of sensitivity on the issue of Apartheid in South Africa is in line with Harvard's social and intellectual commitment to the particular brand of exploitation and barbarism cuphemistically known as Western civilization. It is in line with Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Letter | 5/10/1979 | See Source »

In fact all those First Lady headlines distract from the real meaning of the Conservative victory at the polls: the new Thatcher government professes the most right-wing program seen in British politics since World War II. The Conservative majority of 43 seats in the new House of Commons was...

Author: By Gordon Marsden, | Title: Britain Under the 'Iron Lady' | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

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