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Shannon, a former U.S. representative, has been attorney general since 1987, using the post to launch a legal battle against the Seabrook nuclear power plant and to force the repeal of a school policy discriminating against employees with AIDS...
...commencement address at Daniel Webster College in Nashua, N.H., in 1976 in which he called affirmative-action rules "affirmative discrimination" and said the government has no place meddling in such initiatives. He flew across the state by helicopter to make ; sure protesters who were arrested for demonstrating against the Seabrook nuclear power plant were forced to serve actual jail terms rather than suspended sentences. He tends to rule in favor of the prosecution in criminal trials. But Souter is also a great supporter of environmental and consumer protection, of victims' rights, and of giving child abuse and neglect cases high...
...Hampshire's Seabrook plant has produced some of the nuclear power industry's fiercest battles, leading to more than 2,500 arrests of protesters since the mid-1970s and to repeated announcements of its demise. Yet like the phoenix, the nuclear plant has a way of rising again. Last week the Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted 3 to 0 to give the station a license to operate at full power. Plant officials praised the decision as a "triumph of reason." They predicted that the reactor, now eleven years overdue for its start-up and carrying a price tag of $6.4 billion...
...Hampshire officials have already floated the idea of charging the anti-Seabrook Clamshell Alliance for the costs incurred by their civil disobedience. Just imagine what a RICO-like law would have done to the NAACP and other civil rights groups in the 1960s...
Even the most blatant instances of influence peddling went virtually unnoticed. Paul Manafort, later a leading campaign adviser to President Bush, used his connections at HUD to ensure funding for an unwanted $43 million rehabilitation of dilapidated housing in Seabrook, N.J. Not only was he a partner in the development firm involved on the project, but he also received $326,000 in fees for his trouble. The matter went unreported for three years. Are there any lessons to be learned from the HUD fiasco? Offered one Washington reporter: "Just because something's silent, that doesn't mean it's asleep...