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...predominantly Shi'ite suburbs south of the capital. Rumors had circulated that the army was preparing to move into the area to crush the forces of the Shi'ite organization Amal. According to U.S. officials, Army Commander Ibrahim Tannous also wanted to cut off an eleven-mile-long corridor that was being used to ferry weapons from Druze outposts in the Chouf Mountains to the Shi'ite militiamen. Tannous' offensive quickly stalled, however, and Amal forces seized three army outposts. Government troops retaliated by shelling the densely populated southern suburbs...
...accident was a financial and public relations disaster for Metropolitan Edison, the utility that operated Three Mile Island. In 1981 its corporate parent, New Jersey-based General Public Utilities (GPU), set up a new subsidiary, called GPU Nuclear Corp., to clean up the mess left by the accident and reassure the public that T.M.I. Unit 2 is safe. The company is making progress at the first task but has been less successful with the second...
...campaign to win back official and public trust for Three Mile Island is even further behind schedule. Investigators for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have raised questions about safety procedures being followed by some of the cleanup crews. A federal grand jury has charged Metropolitan Edison with criminal misconduct in connection with its operation of the plant in the months preceding the accident. Among other things, the company is accused of having manipulated and falsified tests relating to leaks and then concealing the problem from...
...same amount of electricity generated by coal and 7.3? for power from oil. Nuclear plants have an impressive worldwide safety record. Government inspections abroad are generally just as tough as in the U.S., and often tougher. Very few accidents like the near meltdown at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island in 1979 have been reported anywhere else in the world, and no mishap has received comparable publicity...
NASA also has its eyes on another first. If winds and weather are fair in Florida at the end of Challenger's seventh day in orbit - and the problem of Palapa has been resolved - the winged spacecraft will land on the Kennedy Space Center's three-mile-long shuttle runway rather than on the hard-packed sands of California's Edwards Air Force Base. Such a feat would not only go a long way toward proving the shuttle's versatility but also save NASA at least $1 million a mission, the cost of piggybacking the orbiter...