Word: reactor
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...mentioned Garment's worries to Ehrlichman on Sunday, April 15. "Garment," replied Ehrlichman, "is a nuclear over-reactor. Pay no attention to him. Our major problem is to get John Mitchell to own up to his responsibility." Mitchell indeed! Did he have the major responsibility-or was he chosen as the fall guy? If Mitchell was involved, the scandal would be uncontainable. John Mitchell, that epitome of loyalty, would never have acted without at least believing that he was carrying out presidential wishes. Whatever hypothesis one considered-Garment's, which saw Colson as the chief villain with Haldeman...
...particular, Haig may clash again with Weinberger on policy toward the Middle East. He argued successfully last year that the U.S. should not impose the tough sanctions against Israel that Weinberger wanted after the Israeli raid against the nuclear reactor in Iraq. Haig feared that so blunt a tone would make Begin's government less receptive to American persuasion. But Haig's own policy of promoting a "strategic consensus" among the U.S., Israel and moderate Arab states against Soviet penetration of the area has gone nowhere, and the Secretary of State no longer uses the phrase. Haig...
Furthermore, Israel has violated international sovereignty just as surely as other friendly nations have sometimes violated human rights, for example, by bombing Iraq's experimental nuclear reactor last summer. Should America stop arms sales to Israel because of isolated abuses of American weapons, incomplete disregard of Israel's pressing security needs...
Even in the halcyon budget-cutting days of July 1981, the House found room in its heart for the "truly needy" Clinch River breeder reactor program, approving Reagan's request for $228 million in new construction funds. The fiscal 1982 budget included a 36 percent increase in nuclear subsidies, boosting the figure to $1.6 billion, and administration planners envision an increase to $1.7 billion for fiscal 1983. In addition, the president has called for "streamlining" the NRC's licensing process to allow 33 more plants to come on line in the next two years. He has also endorsed federal financing...
Perhaps most ominous, the administration is seriously considering "solving" the waste problem by using waste plutonium from the civilian reactor program to make nuclear weapons. This measure would shatter once and for all the convenient fiction of an "Atoma for Peace" program completely distinct from its more sinister cousin, the military...