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...people to think of Karen Silkwood as a sort of Joan of Arc of the nuclear age, an ignorant peasant lass who was martyred after she heeded the voice of a developing conscience and dared to point out the lack of adequate safety measures and quality controls in a plutonium-recycling plant where she was employed. This facility was owned by a corporate giant (Kerr-McGee) working under a Government contract, and Silkwood died in an auto accident on her way to show a New York Times reporter supposed documentary evidence of her charges. Thus, the possibility that someone...
...Plutonium was handled in the Crescent, Okla., plant that employed Karen Silkwood; that this woman, whom they cannot show as anything but neurotically self-centered and very messy both in her private life and in her relationship with peers and superiors at work, for reasons of her own decided to take a leading role in her union's campaign to remedy these defects; that thereafter she began to suffer from radioactive contamination, which may have been caused by someone in the company, but could possibly have been self-induced; that on the night of Nov. 13,1974, she lost...
...into an information network, they can be extended in all directions by attaching the mechanical brain to sensors, mechanical arms and other robotic devices. Robots are already at work in a large variety of dull, dirty or dangerous jobs: painting automobiles on assembly lines and transporting containers of plutonium without being harmed by radiation. Because a computerized robot is so easy to reprogram, some experts foresee drastic changes in the way manufacturing work is done: toward customization, away from assembly-line standards. When the citizen of tomorrow wants a new suit, one futurist scenario suggests, his personal computer will take...
Only a few years ago, relations between the U.S. and Pakistan were seriously strained. The Carter Administration cut off aid to Pakistan in 1978, charging that it was using U.S.-supplied plutonium to develop a nuclear-weapons capability. A year later, rampaging demonstrators in Islamabad set fire to the U.S. embassy. But when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, Pakistan's neighbor and a fellow Muslim country, Washington and Islamabad quickly rediscovered each other. That rediscovery was at the heart last week of the warm greeting in Washington given by President Reagan to Pakistan's unelected President since...
...years ago, rampaging demonstrators in Islamabad set fire to the U.S. embassy, leading to the deaths of a U.S. Marine, a U.S. Army warrant officer and two Pakistanis. In 1978 all U.S. aid to Pakistan had been suspended because the Carter Administration believed that Pakistan was using U.S.-supplied plutonium to develop a weapons-grade nuclear capability, an allegation Zia denies (see interview). But in 1981 Congress authorized a resumption of assistance, mainly because Soviet troops had invaded Afghanistan...