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...advanced industrial society, had a common-sense acceptance as inevitable. But the price of progress, like the price of anything, has a ceiling, and for the nuclear power industry, the radioactive gases drifting from Three Mile Island have undeniably raised the price?and public consciousness about the risks???of nuclear power. Just how high rests in large measure on how Pennsylvania's nightmare ends...
...more serious Arab charge is that arrested suspects are maltreated and even tortured. Israel admits to holding more than 2,000 Palestinians as security risks???in overcrowded prisons where ten or more people are jammed into cells measuring 13 ft. by 13 ft. and kept there for 23 hours a day. Jewish prisoners normally have beds to sleep on; Arab prisoners have only mats. When asked why this was so, one prison official explained that the Arabs would use the metal to make weapons. Last winter more than 200 Arab prisoners at Ashkelon went on a hunger strike to protest...
There are, of course, risks???psychological and physical?in such retrenchment while the other superpower, Russia, and the budding power, Communist China, continue to build up. Yet if Nixon can be faulted, it is not for enunciating his much-needed and perhaps belated doctrine, but for his failure to heed it consistently. Though rationalized as a defensive measure, his decision to order U.S. troops into Cambodia seemed to violate his own policy. Whatever its limited military advantages to the U.S. in Viet Nam, the Cambodian intervention was billed by the President in apocalyptic terms. Almost always when he speaks...
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