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...trailed badly in the polls in 1981, only to emerge victorious. But there are important differences. In 1981, Likud began to close the gap ten weeks before the election, and Begin helped his chances by cutting taxes on luxury goods and staging a lightning attack against an Iraqi nuclear reactor only three weeks before the vote...
...billion and the arrest of more than 3,000 protesters, the controversial Diablo Canyon nuclear plant last week started low-power testing. But within six hours of operation, plant engineers noticed that a stuck valve had begun channeling nonradioactive water into a holding tank instead of into the reactor's cooling system. Ten minutes after the discovery, however, the valve was closed, and testing continued. "We expect events like this to take place," said George Sarkisian, a spokesman for Pacific Gas & Electric, which operates the plant. "It's all part of the low-power testing process...
...laying off 5,200 workers, the owners expect to save $750,000 a day. But the project will continue to eat up $1 million daily because of other expenses, primarily interest payments. Many investors hope the utilities will decide to scrap the reactor, which is 73% finished. Its twin, 23% completed, was tentatively canceled last month. Said Maine Public Utilities Commission Chairman Peter Bradford: "Something had to be done." The utility can only hope it did something soon enough...
...White House than Ronald Reagan. Yet in the early months of Reagan's presidency, Israel administered a series of violent shocks to the Administration and to public opinion-its expanded policy of building settlements in the West Bank, its attack on June 7,1981, on the Iraqi nuclear reactor, its vigorous opposition to the sale of American AWACS to Saudi Arabia. As a result, the assumption that the U.S. would always unreservedly support Israel in a contest of interests with its Arab neighbors ceased to apply...
Finally, realizing that his stonewalling was doing more harm than good, Mondale's aides advised their candidate to cite some differences with labor. He mentioned his opposition to the B-1 bomber, the Clinch River breeder reactor and the weakening of clean air standards. The examples were "small potatoes," conceded an AFL official. "They're not going to quiet the howling beast." The clumsy handling of the issue was a rare stumble by Mondale's smoothly efficient machine, which is being publicly tested for the first time in Iowa this Monday and New Hampshire next Tuesday...