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Sensing that the nuclear power industry had been badly wounded by the events at Three Mile Island, antinuclear groups moved into action across the country. Near Minneapolis and Eau Claire, Wis., they demonstrated against nuclear power plants, crying, "It could happen here...
...will ever be able-or be allowed-to contribute much more than the 14% of electricity production and almost 4% of total energy consumption that they supply today. "The way I see it, the nuclear power industry does not have a future," says an executive of an atomic plant near Toledo. His gloom is extreme, but the friends and foes of nuclear power agree that the Pennsylvania accident can only strengthen the effective campaign against the building of new nuclear facilities. Says Alexander Polikoff, executive director of Business and Professional People for the Public Interest, a Chicago antinuclear group...
...with the Third Marine Division, which was based in Danang. On Sept. 28, 1965, he disappeared while driving a Jeep. He was not seen by another American soldier until March 1968, when the Viet Cong herded several captured GIs into a Viet Cong prison camp in the mountains near the Laotian border. "He was on the other side, no question about it," says former Army Staff Sergeant David Harker, who was imprisoned in the camp for 16 months and is now a probation officer in Lynchburg, Va. "He collaborated. He took special favors. I don't know if traitor...
Gerald Ford did not get an invitation. In his home near Palm Springs, Calif., he fiddled with his TV set and found that his cable line was on the blink; the former President had to wait for the evening news for the pictures. But there was no lack of good Republican enthusiasm for the man who had beaten him at the polls, or for the treaty. "I applaud it," he later roared over the phone. "All three met the challenge. I hope the doubters recognize that this is the only way we can get a comprehensive settlement. I hope...
...weeks the Tanzania-Uganda war had been in a stalemate. Half the invading force had halted near the town of Mpigi, some 30 miles south of Kampala, while the other half was stalled on a road about 40 miles west of the Ugandan capital. The two-pronged attack apparently had been stopped by Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere. During the course of the five-month war, Nyerere had been reluctant to send his troops all the way to Kampala. He had hoped that the invasion would lead to a spontaneous uprising of disaffected Ugandans, both military and civilian, that would then...