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Dukakis has blocked the awarding of an operating license for the New Hampshire plant by refusing to approve emergency evacuation plans for the six Massachusetts communities within the 10-mile emergency planning zone...
...Dukakis and New York Governor Mario Cuomo have managed to block the startup of Shoreham and Seabrook because NRC rules adopted in the wake of the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island, Pa., virtually require state and local cooperation in planning for the evacuation of residents within 10 miles of a reactor in the event of a major accident...
...Houston, Customs Commissioner William von Raab invited some 65 Texas lawmen to inspect a sophisticated new communications center for coordinating surveillance against smugglers. Alive with radar screens, computers and scrambled-speech telephones, the Blue Fire command post will eventually anchor a "radar picket line" along the porous 2,000-mile. border with Mexico, the passageway for one-third of the drugs entering...
...local police, complain that they are fighting smugglers without the paraphernalia they need, including night-vision devices, secure radios and electronic sensors to plant in remote airfields and along footpaths used by smugglers. The Customs Service in McAllen, Texas, has only one rubber raft to patrol a 170-mile stretch of the Rio Grande. Declares Silvestre Reyes, chief Border Patrol agent for the McAllen sector: "The crooks are better equipped than...
...Duvalier has said that short of returning to Haiti, she would most like to move to Los Angeles. Duvalier, 35, has expressed a strong preference for staying in France, where he has unsuccessfully sought refugee status. For now, the couple remain confined to a 30-mile strip along the Cote d'Azur, virtually prisoners in a home that is not their own, in a country that officially refuses to accept them...