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Indians from New Mexico's pueblos have been a pivotal part of the U.S. Forest Service's Southwest Firefighters Unit since the early 1950s. High spirited, and paid $7.05 an hour, the Jemez Pueblo's Eagles are among the proudest of all the smoke eaters and are often sought out to help battle fires throughout the West. Last week four of the 102-member group were killed and 17 others injured when their truck overturned off a mountain road in Idaho, where they had been fighting a forest fire. Just as the Jemez community (pop. 2,800) always turned...
Even with new measures, experts doubted the RBMK reactor would meet Western safety standards. Said a member of the 21-person U.S. delegation: "The Soviets have taken some initial steps, the more obvious ones, but we are still not satisfied." Other Western specialists maintained that the RBMK units are obsolete. Their main disadvantage, said British Delegate Lord Walter Marshall, is that they are moderated, or controlled, by blocks of graphite. That substance can ignite under the extreme heat of an accident in a water- cooled reactor, causing a damaged unit to burn out of control...
Western nuclear engineers have avoided graphite-moderated reactors since a 1957 British accident damaged such a unit. Only one American commercial reactor, near Plateville, Colo., uses graphite. It is gas-cooled, however, and has a protective containment system of concrete, ceramic and steel...
...lark. When 38 medics from the Iowa National Guard returned to Iowa City last week, they were back from Honduras, not Fort Dodge. They had spent two weeks training in the bush and giving medical treatment to occupants of remote villages like Toro Muerto. The Air National Guard unit in Bangor, Me., has already been in Alaska, California and Italy this year and is revving up to fly off to Panama next week...
...group of about 100 guests of the Britishconsulate that awaited the Prince's arrival inBoston Tuesday had much better luck. After Charlesdisembarked from his plane, he inspected the40-man Massachusetts Ceremonial Unit, which played"God Save the Queen...