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...traipsing through the deserts of the Southwest and the forests of the northern Midwest, hoping to hear the staccato clicking of a brand-new Geiger counter. Homeowners all across America daydreamed of discovering uranium in their backyards and living on Easy Street forever. In New Jersey's Jefferson Township, a small (pop. 16,000) community nestled in green hills about an hour's drive from Manhattan, that old dream is a present reality. The rock beneath is veined with high-grade uranium ore that could be worth millions to those who own the land or win the rights...
...hills around Jefferson Township are honeycombed with old iron mines. Geologists have long known that some uranium must be there too, since it is often found in rock formations that yield iron. But the first hint that there might be enough to make mining worthwhile came only four years ago, when a retired contractor named Joseph Riggio received a letter from Pennzoil saying it had reason to believe there were "good amounts" of uranium on his property. Riggio reacted by getting in touch with Exxon, a Pennzoil rival. Exxon reacted by drilling some test holes on Riggio's land...
Conservative Challenger Alfonse D'Amato, 43, the presiding supervisor of Hempstead Township (pop. 800,000), attacked Javits for supporting SALT II, the Equal Rights Amendment and Government-paid abortions. With questionable taste, D'Amato also made issues out of his opponent's age and health. Javits admitted that he suffers from motor neuron disease, which is slowly withering his muscles. One D'Amato commercial showed a wrinkled Javits poster slowly falling to the ground as an announcer intoned: "And now, at age 76 and in failing health, he wants another six years...
...lovely wooded area of New Jersey known as the Pine Barrens, more than 100 wells have been poisoned by chemicals leaching from the 135-acre Jackson Township dump. James McCarthy, who had drunk well water for ten years, had one kidney removed in 1977, and now has trouble with the other. Tara, his daughter, died in 1975 of a kidney cancer when she was nine months old. A 16-year-old neighbor lost a kidney to cancer; another neighbor is on dialysis for kidney problems; a third also has a kidney ailment. No scientific link has been established between...
Four years ago, the worst rioting was concentrated in Soweto, the huge black township outside Johannesburg, and in other black communities near the major cities. This time, Soweto seemed merely to be the fuse. The police were fearful that a new explosion might erupt on June 16, the anniversary of the 1976 riots-which has become a day for black mourning and political demonstrations-and the government banned all ceremonies. Inevitably, that action provoked blacks into acts of defiance. Buses were overturned, shops burned and cars stoned in the black townships. Seven thousand black workers went on strike in Port...