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...Chernobyl, you had a nuclear fire that at the first stage affected the technicians in the plant," noted Selidovkin. "But there was no cesium 137 introduced into their bodies. Here the irradiation was both incorporated and local." Leide das Neves Ferreira, 6, who had eaten a cesium-tainted sandwich, continued to emit 25 rads a day, even after repeated efforts at decontamination. At that rate, the radioactivity in her body was destroying her bone marrow before it could produce white blood cells...
...long as Wall Street was blooming, mutual funds seemed to promise the impossible: a place where cautious people could plant their money, ignore it and let it grow, as safely as in a bank but as fruitfully as in the stock market. Millions of new investors could not resist. Take Charles Jayson. Last year the Manhattan retailing executive bought 510 shares in a stock fund managed by Boston's Fidelity Investments (total assets: $75 billion). "I wanted to be in the market," says Jayson, 30, "but I wanted something I didn't have to watch every...
...ineligible twelve of the 35 declared candidates in presidential elections scheduled for Nov. 29. Reaction was swift and violent. Night after night, armed gangs set fire to the electoral council's headquarters in downtown Port- au-Prince, to a store owned by a prominent council member, and to a plant where ballots were being printed. "We are determined to hold elections," declared the Rev. Alain Rocourt, council treasurer. But, he added, that goal now "may be extremely difficult if not impossible...
Dukakis, who has been critical of emergency evacuation plans at Pilgrim, said, "Today's announcement ... underscores the need to keep that plant closed until safety issues are resolved." Dukakis said his administration would "insist on a full accounting from Boston Edison of the violations at the Plymouth plant, including actions taken by the utility...
State Sen. William Golden (D-Weymouth), one of the most vocal critics of Pilgrim, said, "It appears that the new management is having no better success than the old in safely operating the plant." Golden blasted Edison for what he called a "bunker mentality" in delaying until yesterday the reporting of potential safety violations that occurred over the weekend...