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...make ends meet, virtually every Ugandan has resorted to cheating. Cab drivers charge 1,000 shillings for the 21-mile drive from Kampala to Entebbe airport, ten times the fare a year ago. Clerks at government-controlled stores routinely consign salt, sugar and other commodities to the black market, where they sell for many times the official price. Coffee, Uganda's biggest cash crop, is smuggled into neighboring Burundi, which last year exported more than twice the quantity of coffee beans it harvested in its own fields. Says a Ugandan clergyman: "I don't know if our people...
...endangered victim of technology? The classic American salvation (clear the land! build! disembowel the mountains!) threatens to invert to damnation. Acid rain pelts the Adirondacks, destroying their fish. Smog blows east from the Pacific Coast and eats the vegetation off the Sierras. The Love Canal and Three Mile Island and Kepone in the Tidewater all make mothers anxious in their genes. The once almighty dollar shrivels. Productivity dips to zero, and the national wealth, at the rate of $90 billion a year, departs, never to return, to pay for foreigners...
More than 2000 persons gathered on Boston Common Saturday to commemorate the first anniversary of the accident at Three Mile Island nuclear plan outside Harrisburg...
...make matters worse, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission lost credibility because of the Three Mile Island accident and has yet to get it back. The special commission appointed by the President to investigate the accident called the NRC, in the words of Commission Chairman John Kemeny, "an agency hypnotized by equipment." This faith in technology, charged the investigators, was at least partially to blame for the lax safety procedures and lack of qualified personnel that they felt contributed to the Three Mile Island nightmare...
...Kemeny commission that investigated Three Mile Island for President Carter put only small blame on the operators in the control room on the day of the near disaster. Instead, the commission took aim at what it called the "shallow," "deficient" and "inadequate" operator training system created by industry and Government. In the year since the accident, industry executives and Government regulators have made a number of changes. Says Loring Mills, a spokesman for the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations: "Before T.M.I., the industry was training people to run plants as if they always ran correctly. Now we throw trainees situations...