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...Unfortunately, the N.R.C. has largely continued to give safety a low priority. One major result of thirty years of ignorance and mismanagement was the accident at Three Mile Island in March, 1979. Yet Ford well knows that, relative to what might happen. Three Mile Island was only a minor mishap. In one incident in 1961 that the A.E.C. did not "take seriously," an entire reactor at the Commission's Idaho test station exploded when a workman, possibly bent on murder-suicide, precipitously removed a safety rod from the core of the reactor. Were this to happen in a major nuclear...
Fire alarms accidentally went off in the Fogg Museum, Claverly Hall, and Peabody Terrace yesterday because of a mishap in the Server Hall construction project, causing the evacuation of hundreds of students and tourists...
...rising to Maronite leadership, Bashir had to fight not only Palestinians and leftist Muslims but also some of his fellow Maronites. In the tense atmosphere, a minor automobile mishap could touch off a firefight between Bashir's Phalangist warriors and the "tigers" of former President Camille Chamoun, often with bloody results. Gemayel's Phalangists were accused of murdering a son and granddaughter of former President Suleiman Franjieh (whose own followers, according to local belief, had once gunned down 17 members of a rival family in a church in northern Lebanon...
...also one of the most dedicated athletes in the school. Last summer she injured her back when she dove and landed on some concrete--the resulting shoulder injury plagued her throughout the season. Despite this mishap. Stone managed to dive in almost every meet, never once complaining...
...ruptured cervical disc in a car accident while on City business. This left him in "constant pain, unable to do any lifting or bending." His disability request: $30,240 a year. According to the Globe, he had taken out nine separate accident insurance policies shortly before his auto mishap, and the only witnesses to the accident were three of his lifelong friends; the newspaper also reported that he was seen lifting packages, driving and walking with no apparent stiffness. Now all pension requests are coming under close public scrutiny. Huffs Sinnott: "I thought this was confidential...