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More than 250 people gathered at the Karen Silkwood Memorial Rally in Boston last night to demand an end to nuclear weapons and nuclear power, and to protest circumstances surrounding the death of Silkwood...
...unexplained attempt was made on Silkwood's life through the contamination of her house with plutonium after she brought charges against the Kerr-McGee plant to the Atomic Energy Commission...
...Karen Silkwood, a worker at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant in Crescent, Oklahoma, collected documented evidence of her company's violations of health, safety, and quality standard rules...
While traveling to present her compiled documents to a labor union official and a New York Times reporter, Silkwood hit a concrete culvert and was killed. Two federal investigations concluded that Silkwood's death was accidental...
Daniel P. Sheehan, chief counsel for the Silkwood case, said last night that the Silkwood family is suing Kerr-McGee officials for failing to account for all of the company's stored plutonium, for violating health and standard rules, and for violating Silkwood's civil and union liberties...