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...quality and safety of Soviet-built nuclear reactors is a subject that will soon be close to home for some Americans. The Soviets are helping Cuba install a pair of reactors near the town of Cienfuegos, some 250 miles south of Miami. U.S. experts say that the twin units will use water rather than graphite to moderate the fuel reactions and will apparently be housed in containment buildings. Though full details are unknown, some U.S. physicists familiar with the Western-style reactors say they are probably no more dangerous than several now used in Florida...
Nuclear foes are clearly spoiling for a fight. That is nowhere more true than in West Germany, where confrontations between protesters and police have long been common. Says Dieter Kersting, a leading opponent of plans to build a fuel-reprocessing facility in a forest clearing near the Bavarian town of Wackersdorf: "The Chernobyl catastrophe clearly strengthens our position." Noting that officials have consistently called the chances of a meltdown virtually nil, Kersting added, "Who can believe those assertions...
...Chernobyl disaster is likely to have political and diplomatic repercussions that reach far beyond that small Ukrainian town. When the Soviet Union was faced with a major crisis last week, its leaders reacted in a historic defensive style. Rather than opening up to explain how the Chernobyl accident happened and how the rest of the world could protect itself, Moscow built up a wall of silence that showed a contemptuous disregard for its neighbors...
Reagan was to return to Washington on today, with only a refueling stop in Anchorage, Alaska, concluding the more than 22,000-mile, 13-day Far Eastern tour, the longest out-of-town trip of his more than five-year presidency...
...three segments feature unrelated storylines. One describes the adventures of Gus Gespacho, a private detective reminiscent of Philip Marlowe; another depicts the life and times of a small-town boy who wants to make it big in cowtipping. The third script, called "Ed the Busdriver vs. the Shriners from Hell," focuses on life after a nuclear...