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...article on nuclear power, "Pulling the Nuclear Plug" [ENERGY, Feb. 13], incorrectly states that Suffolk County's battle with Lilco over emergency planning has been resolved and that "emergency procedures were finally approved." No such approval has occurred. Early in 1983, after exhaustive study, I concluded that it would be impossible to protect the county's 1.3 million residents in the event of a nuclear accident at the Shoreham facility. The county legislature agreed. No formal emergency plan has ever been approved by Suffolk County or the Nuclear Regulatory Commission...
Pulling the Plug...
...Huff said that she had earlier informed Field in a letter that she was going to propose the disavowal of his award. Field "shamelessly pulled the plug on a major civic institution," she said. "This is not what the Harvard Club stands...
...would leave troops in Honduras while he attempted to negotiate the withdrawal of some 2,000 Cuban soldiers from Nicaragua. He would, however, "substantially reduce" American force levels there (from 1,750 to 200 or fewer). But, as he said during the debate, he "wouldn't pull the plug" on Honduras, "a democracy that deserves that help...
Fear of legal reprisal has apparently led some hospitals to conceal decisions on life support so that no one can be held responsible for deciding to pull the plug. A New York grand-jury report last month charged administrators at a Queens hospital, widely recognized as La Guardia, with "shocking procedural abuses" in the care of elderly patients. According to New York State Prosecutor Edward Kuriansky, the hospital would put purple decals on the charts of patients who were not to be resuscitated should they start to fail. After death, the charts were destroyed so that there was no record...