Word: scientists
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...evidently agreed. When the May 25 ballots were tallied last week, Barco was elected by the largest landslide in the country's history. The M.I.T.-trained engineer, who monitored the results on his computer terminal, won 58% of the vote, vs. 36% for Conservative Alvaro Gomez Hurtado. Said Political Scientist German Rodriguez: "The people want a manager and statesman, not an orator...
Though this scenario sounds like the plot for a made-for-TV movie, Eugene Shoemaker, a respected U.S. Geological Survey scientist, is concerned that just such an event--and an unwarranted reaction--could occur. Shoemaker expressed his fears at a recent Baltimore meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU): "The effect of a meteor blast appears the same as a high- altitude nuclear explosion," he said. "If this happens in the wrong place, people will think they've been nuked...
...Soviets, however, may be seeing Sakharov in a different light since the nuclear accident in Chernobyl last month. "He goes shopping, and people come up and ask him if they are in danger," Louis says. "He answers calmly and objectively, as a scientist, and tells them they can eat the apples and not to worry." Sakharov may also be ready to call a truce with the Kremlin. Bonner's daughter Tatyana Yankelevich said in Paris that her stepfather had offered "to cease his public activities, and wants to return to his scientific activity...
...Soviet scientist Valery Legasov yesterday said that lessons must be drawn from the Chernobyl nuclear accident, including the need for better skills in dealing with sophisticated technology...
...profession that has been stumbling badly, often with little support from the communities it serves. The report, produced by a 14-member task force that included Mary Hatwood Futrell, president of the National Education Association, and Bill Honig, superintendent of California schools, and was chaired by IBM's chief scientist Lewis Branscomb, recommends putting teachers in control of the educational process...