Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lieutenant Louis P. Font, who transferred from the Kennedy School of Government to Fort Meade, Md., last year when his application for conscientious objector status was rejected, wants to leave the U. S. Army after a year of constant controversy at the Maryland base...
...Vernon-sized nuclear reactor requires about 1100 to 1200 cubic feet of water per second, all of which is heated to about 18 F above its original temperature. Although over 900 reactors are expected in the U. S. by the year 2000, just 120 of them would require more water than the total annual runoff from the continental U. S. Coastal power stations which use ocean water are being offered as a solution to this problem...
...entire U. S. population is exposed to the level the AEC considers safe for the general population, Joshua Lederberg, Nobel Laureate in genetics, estimates a 10 per cent increase in the mutation rate. Other researchers, notably Drs. Gofman and Tamplin of the AEC, estimate between 32,000 and 150,000 additional annual deaths due to increased mutation, cancer and leukemia...
...underground as in Sweden and Switzerland? This has been advocated for many years by Dr. Edward Teller (proverbial father of the H-bomb) and others in this country. The reason is simple. As has been proven in Britain, which generates four times as much electricity from fission as the U. S., nuclear reactors are simply more costly than other forms of power. Underground construction would be prohibitively expensive...
Margaret H. Marshall, a third-year student at the Ed School and a member of the African Research Group, charged that Polaroid refused to withdraw from South Africa "because of tension between the U. S. government and South Africa...