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...total, which does not cover soldiers' salaries, works out to $224,000 for each of the 600 U.S. students evacuated from Grenada, or $1 million for every square mile of territory. The real value of the operation, which rooted out a murderous crowd that had gunned its way to power, cannot be easily calculated-even if its price...
...pessimism, in addition to Consumers Power and Lilco, are Public Service Co. of Indiana, Public Service Co. of New Hampshire and United Illuminating of Connecticut. All undertook ambitious nuclear power programs in the 1970's, then saw those projects threatened by antinuke sentiment after Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island accident. On top of that came searing double-digit inflation and rising interest rates that drove up construction costs to four and five times the estimates. The oil shocks of the 1970's made it all the harder for the utilities to produce cheap power. Finally, recession...
...because it is owned by a French consortium. Walter Mondale had other reasons for picking the same digs as his headquarters during the Democratic Convention, starting with its location one block from Moscone Center. By contrast, the other two Democratic presidential candidates will be staying a traffic-clogged half-mile away on Union Square - Gary Hart at the venerable Westin St. Francis and Jesse Jackson at the high-rise Hyatt...
...family hiked for more than a week to get to Zimbabwe from Tete. "There is nothing there," he said of his home territory. "We were walking through villages of death. In village after village, people wanted to come with us, but they were too weak." During the 75-mile journey, two of his four children died...
...appeared for the first time in the Western Hemisphere, in Cuba, where 460,000 swine were killed to eliminate the disease. In 1978 it turned up in the Dominican Republic after a local pig supposedly ate contaminated ham from Spain. The vi rus quickly jumped the 200-mile common border into Haiti. Haitians recall seeing pigs fall dead in their tracks on the road and in the fields. But no one was able to determine accurately whether the deaths were all attributable to swine fever, or to hog cholera or some other epidemic disease. Many Haitians contend that only...