Word: set
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lessen the danger of future accidents, the commission recommended that plant operators be held to stricter training standards and that future plants be built far away from major population centers.* The commission also urged that the NRC be replaced by a nuclear czar appointed by the President. This recommendation set off a sharp debate. NRC Commissioner Peter Bradford contended that a single administrator would do nothing to improve the Government's regulation of nukes. Said he: "This is not a meat-inspection program." Replied Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, a Kemeny commission member: "The NRC is a headless agency that...
...Rhode Island urged that the U.S. and other countries establish a huge airlift of food and medicine into Cambodia if Phnom-Penh persists in refusing to allow a "land bridge" for trucks to enter Cambodia from Thailand with supplies. A bipartisan group of 68 House members urged Carter to set up a joint airlift with the Soviet Union. The plan was first suggested by the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh of the University of Notre Dame. Said he: "I'm perfectly willing to ride in the lead truck and get shot in the process rather than sit back and have...
Despite the best efforts of the Thais and international relief agencies, the aid being provided to the 80,000 Cambodian refugees who have reached Thailand is makeshift and inadequate. TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Marsh Clark last week visited a camp that had been hastily set up to care for 30,000 refugees at Sakaew, 40 miles west of the Cambodian frontier. Most of the refugees had taken shelter from blinding rainstorms in huts constructed of poles and plastic sheets; small blue tents had been set up for dozens of orphans. Field kitchens were preparing high-protein rice gruel...
...angry book Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia, British Journalist William Shawcross has charged that the bombing and invasion of the country set the stage for the Khmer Rouge conquest of Cambodia. U.S. policy, Shawcross argued, "was creating an enemy [the Khmer Rouge] where none had previously existed." In his memoirs, Henry Kissinger answered that the North Vietnamese were the first to violate Cambodia's neutrality, and that it is outrageous to blame American policy for the horrors that the Khmer Rouge unleashed on its own people after the collapse of the Lon Nol government...
...strength. At the same time, the body attempts to husband its resources by cutting energy requirements to the minimum. Pulse rate and blood pressure fall and body temperature drops. Men become impotent; women stop menstruating, and nursing mothers fail to produce milk; children stop growing. Mental and physical lassitude set in, and individuals become obsessed with finding food. Some malnourished people develop edema, a swelling, especially in the joints and abdomen...