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...seen traffic at Hampton Beach from eight in the morning until eight at night, bumper to bumper," Hampton Police Sgt. Victor DeMarco told the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board during hearings on evacuation plans for New Hampshire communities within Seabrook's 10-mile emergency zone...
...Cabral estimates that as many as 70 of the shipwreck victims drowned or were eaten by sharks. Given the heavy volume of illegal Dominican immigration to Puerto Rico, a tragedy was almost inevitable. Indeed, hundreds of inhabitants of the impoverished Caribbean nation have perished on the dangerous 90-mile journey across the Mona Passage between the two islands. Most of the dead are victims of fierce tropical storms or unscrupulous sea captains who take their passengers' money only to throw them overboard or leave them on deserted islands to starve. Despite the odds, some 150,000 Dominicans have managed...
Current NRC rules virtually preclude licensing a nuclear plant unless state and local officials cooperate in emergency planning for residents within a 10-mile radius. The proposed change would allow the commission to approve evacuation plans drawn up solely by the utilities, if local officials balk...
Leading opponents of the two reactors include Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, whose state includes several communities within Seabrook's 10-mile emergency planning zone, and New York Gov. Mario Cuomo. Both have withheld the requisite guarantees of emergency assistance on ground that no evacuation plan could adequately protect the public in the congested resort areas...
...solution: carnivorous softshell turtles. To cleanse the holy river, the state government of Uttar Pradesh is raising hundreds of the reptiles. In mid- 1988 they will be released into a twelve-mile stretch of the Ganges. There they are expected to feed on the dead...