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...atomic blasts known as Able and Baker, one an air drop and the other underwater, signalled the beginning of Crossroads. The experiment occurred in the Bikini Atoll, then under American control and identified by the U.S. Navy as a prime testing site because of its distance from the U.S. and small population...
Instead, the U.S. government and military have used the islands--which make up an area known as Micronesia that is nearly as large as the U.S. itself--as a test site for advanced nuclear weaponry, frequently relocating island inhabitants to do so. The Marshall Islanders have become guinea pigs for the detonation of at least 66 atomic and hydrogen bombs in the 1940s...
Most recently, the U.S. Pentagon had expressed an interest in using Micronesia for a jungle warfare training bases. Already a site for nuclear waste dumping by the U.S. and other world powers, the islanders have appealed to the United Nations for a voice in their own destiny...
Similarly, the committee voted unanimously against a resolution that would force General Electric to detail all potential exposure of employees to nuclear radiation and define corporate liability for any job-site nuclear accidents...
...trouble begins at a Philadelphia construction site when a young bricklayer and speed freak named Leon Hubbard waves a straight razor under a co-worker's chin. The would-be victim, Lucien Edwards Jr., 69, is black, dignified and not to be trifled with: he bashes a metal pipe into the back of Leon's head. The foreman, Coleman Peets, sees this fatal act as providential. He has been worrying for days about how to get rid of the punk without killing him himself. The police arrive and accept with little reluctance Peets' description of an accidental...