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...been counting on nuclear energy to achieve a greater degree of energy independence, but the Three Mile Island accident helped demonstrate that there is no easy path to self-sufficiency. The use of each kind of energy has its own particular problems or risks. Says David Rosenbaum, a consultant to the General Accounting Office and a former professor of theoretical physics at Boston University: "The public has been deluded into thinking that if all the scientists just buckle down, they can figure it all out. That's not true. When you have a modern, complicated technology, you just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Now Comes The Fallout | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...Rosenbaum of the HJLSA and two members of One Generation After, a Boston organization made up largely of children of Holocaust survivors, argued during their meeting with the deputy consul for repeal of the statute...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Nazi War Crimes Discussed With West German Consulate | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

...delegation presented the deputy consul with a memorandum written by Rosenbaum on the statute. The memo said the Allies hold many unpublicized documents that have not been used in war crimes investigations. "It would be an unsufferably bitter irony if those war criminals flushed out by access to hitherto underutilized data could take refuge behind a lapsed statute of limitations," the memorandum said...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Nazi War Crimes Discussed With West German Consulate | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

That, at least, is the premise of Ron Rosenbaum's delightfully bitchy first novel, a tale of lethal venality among the nation's media mandarins. Rosenbaum, 32, is a former Village Voice staff member who protested Editor Clay Felker's 1974 takeover by ripping up his paycheck in the new owner's face (to which Felker is reported to have asked, "Who was that?"). In Murder, a Felkeresque press lord named Walter Foster loses his empire in an unfriendly takeover. Then, worse fate, he is displaced from his regular table at Elaine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Roman | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...blue-pencil Foster: unforgotten literary feuds, unhealed editorial schisms, unfavorable reviews, stolen story ideas, purloined wives. It also turns out that Foster's murder-as puzzled out by a hero who blends the best characteristics of hard-drugging Rolling Stone Writer Hunter Thompson and a freelancer named Rosenbaum-has much to do with Watergate. Many journalists consider that scandal their calling's finest hour. Foster, writes Rosenbaum, "caught the crest of the wave of media fever that engulfed mid-Seventies America. Woodward and Bernstein brought down a President; Redford and Hoffman enshrined the heroic reporters as symbolic successors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Roman | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

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