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Mondale found the Germans and the French reluctant to modify their deals for the sale of nuclear reprocessing plants to Brazil and Pakistan respectively. But they told Mondale they were willing to tighten international safeguards to prevent the conversion of spent reactor fuel into atomic weapons-a high Carter priority. Mondale also got agreement for further high-level international negotiations to limit the export of nuclear facilities...
...tough approach would risk retaliation from other countries, who could make life difficult for U.S. ships in foreign ports by jacking up tugboat fees or other nuisance gestures. Says a Washington maritime lawyer: "The risk of retaliation is not a trivial one. It is always a dangerous risk to tighten procedures." But increasingly, Washington will have to balance that risk against the rising public concern in the U.S. about the environmental hazard posed by the ever more numerous tankers plying U.S. waters...
...Administrator Russell Train acknowledges that the report contains "some valid criticisms and very good suggestions" and insists that his agency will tighten up its reregistration procedures. The EPA is also planning to take a closer look at other pesticide products, and last week moved against a compound called EPN, which was developed in 1949 and is chemically similar to leptophos. Reason for the agency's unaccustomed haste: a study by an independent researcher indicating that EPN, which attacks the nervous system in much the same way as leptophos, is even more toxic than its close relative...
...That's my screwdriver," he said. "Don't trim my screwdriver too short." He used his thumbnail to flick pages in his documents, and to tighten loose screws or make adjustments in his movie sound equipment or other appliances...
SACRIFICES. When asked what sacrifices they would ask the American people to make to achieve their presidential goals, neither candidate demanded much. Ford suggested vaguely that people would have to "tighten their belts" to meet some domestic problems and would have to spend "a few billion dollars more on defense," but he made it all palatable by promising a tax cut for middle-income people. Carter contended that Americans would have to sacrifice less under him, mainly because of lower unemployment. He asked only for "voluntary 'price restraint" and guidelines to check inflation...