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While the engineers ruminated inside the plant, the public servants played politics outside, Stephens reports. No evacuation of the area surrounding the plant was ordered, in large part for fear of what "it would do to the industry." But Gov. Richard Thornburgh did advise small children and pregnant women to leave, mainly because he worried about the political repercussions of inaction. And all the while, Metropolitan Edison lied to the state, to the NRC and to the press...
Still, it is not only the anticipation of Reagan's reasonableness that has hopes high at the moment. Pennsylvania's Republican Governor Richard Thornburgh explains the Reagan election in terms of ideas: "The status of the individual in society, fiscal integrity, the idea of true federalism, the idea of Government closer to the people, the idea of the toughness of the American fiber, which means a firm line with criminals at home and with our adversaries abroad. With Reagan's election, Republican principles hold the high ground, the principles which put together the real genesis of the Reagan victory. Those...
...Philadelphian conservatives, Spector once seemed the great Republican hope in a city where Democratic politicians predominate. But after losing out to H. John Heinz's ketchup-funded effort in the 1976 state primary, the Republican machine put its strength behind another Pittsburgher, Richard Thornburgh, for the 1978 gubernatorial campaign. Thornburgh subsequently defeated Flaherty in the final contest...
...Flaherty, despite plaudits from many western Pennsylvania voters for having faced down Pittsburgh's municipal unions and cut the city payroll by about 25% while he was mayor in 1970-77, lost the Senate race against Schweiker in 1974 and the Governor's race against Republican Richard Thornburgh in 1978, partly because of insufficient support in Philadelphia. Specter, a household name in Philadelphia as a crusading district attorney in 1966-74, lost the 1976 Republican Senate primary to John Heinz and the 1978 gubernatorial primary to Thornburgh, partly because he could not attract enough votes in western Pennsylvania...
Vice President Walter Mondale, campaigning in New York, called Reagan's position "potentially disastrous to our national security." Reagan met with five Republican Governors in Columbus last week to discuss campaign strategy and, predictably, they downplayed the episode. Said Pennsylvania Governor Richard Thornburgh: "On the street corners of Pittsburgh, they're not much concerned about China policy. They're concerned where their next paycheck is coming from." Insisted Reagan Pollster Richard Wirthlin: "Reagan did not damage his grass-roots support...