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...radioactive pollution from a huge nuclear power plant in Monticello, Minn., conservationists have filed a lawsuit against state agencies and Northern States Power Co. to bar the plant's operations. Result: the Minneapolis-St. Paul area has to borrow power from neighboring utilities. In Kalamazoo, Mich., another nuke is stalled pending consideration of the ecological effects of the plant's discharge of hot water into Lake Michigan. Until pollution-free fuels or new generating techniques can create energy without contaminating the environment, such conflicts are likely to spread across the nation...
...President Nixon, on the advice of his psychiatrist, resists Pentagon pressure to nuke Cleveland, Boston, and New York, strongholds where the enemy troops have been able to gather because all our forces were off resolving a grassfire war between Chile and Laos...
JANUARY 14 -- X trundles out in the snows of reading period to urge the faculty voting on punishment for the ROTC sit-in to "Kick the Fags Out of Harvard." Other picket signs read "Nuke the Pukes" (referring to the nickname for non-jocks at Columbia during the time of the revolt), "We're with you, Sam Huntington" (mentioning the name of the author of the CEP ROTC resolution), and "Send the anarchists to Vietnam" (fine irony in this last...
...amiss-and then only when Scorpion failed to report her arrival off the U.S. coast. The cold-war code for U.S. nuclear subs requires them to cruise submerged without any radio signals that might permit nearby Soviet trawlers and hydrographic vessels to calculate for possible future use the nuke routes of the U.S. Navy. The Russians, of course, are well aware of those routes anyway, since their own subs travel them frequently...
...Even if the Communists begin to win at Khesanh, there are serious doubts that nuclear weapons would be useful at all. The hilly terrain around the base would seriously limit the effectiveness of nuclear weapons against enemy mortar sites. "This just isn't nuke country," a colonel at Khesanh said. "There are too many damn hills...