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Dukakis has chosen to run from Bush's attacks, not fight back. In the second presidential debate, Dukakis claimed "it's not labels" that are important, but issues. He's right. He should have shot back with numerous issues on which Bush has been nowhere near the mainstream...
Down south near the Namibian border is the other side of the war's legacy: a ^ state-of-the-art government air base bristling with the latest Soviet-built MiGs, tanks, radar, antiaircraft missiles and camouflaged bunkers. Angola is the tenth largest importer of arms in the world...
...revelations were enough to curl the hair on the neck of the most seasoned nuclear engineer. Last April a reactor at the Federal Government's sprawling Savannah River Plant near Aiken, S.C., was shut down to upgrade safety systems -- with partially irradiated tritium still in its core. In August technicians, oblivious to the decaying radioactive material inside, tried to restart the reactor but were unable to keep it going. The next day they tried again. Ignoring procedure, they set off an abnormal jump in nuclear fission, usually a sign of imminent trouble. Workers ignored the warning, forcing plant officials...
...decades, such incidents have been alarmingly frequent at the aging facility, which manufactures materials for nuclear bombs. Moreover, officials at the Department of Energy, which oversees the plant, conceded last week that dozens of such near accidents and nuclear mishaps have gone largely unreported for more than 30 years. Admitted DOE safety chief Richard Starostecki: "If this had been a civilian plant, it would have been shut down...
Porter, who has been at the Institute since September 15, said her experience as a fellow has been "invigorating." She said the fellowship offers her access to Harvard's resources and the chance to communicate with "other scholars, near my field...