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...foreign steel in the U.S. for less than it costs to make, or is sold for, in its home country. Last week the Administration announced details of its new "trigger price mechanism" plan, under which steel entering the U.S. with a price tag below a predetermined level would instantly unleash the investigative hound dogs of the Treasury Department...
Crimson mentor Bernal eased the intensity of the Harvard assault by keeping many of his starters dry late in the meet. The one weapon he did unleash was Finnish freshman sensation Tuomo Kerola. Kerola, another Olympian, completed the devastation of the Midshipmen by shattering the pool record in the 200-yd. breaststroke with a lightning-quick time...
...Harvard offense, whiewashed for the fourth time in 12 games, played a solid game but could not consistently unleash clean, hard shots at the Springfield net. "We have to learn how to score on an astro-turf surface. Their small, diagonal passes in front of the net were very effective--they had very good control of the ball," Wood commented...
...serious deception of the American people by their Government, most notably under Johnson. Ironically, much of the deception that Lasky deplores was detailed in the Pentagon papers; yet Lasky considers publication of the documents such a serious breach of security that, in his view, Nixon had every right to unleash his plumbers against Daniel Ellsberg. Typically, Lasky dwells at length on the well-publicized assassination attempts against Castro while Kennedy was President, but he notes only in a phrase that the CIA's deal with two Mafia figures to rub out Castro was struck under Dwight Eisenhower...
Opponents of atomic energy are unmoved by the economic dilemma. The issue is invested with such emotion that few anti-atom groups are pressuring for research into effective alternatives to nuclear power. They emphasize that nuclear accidents at reactor sites could unleash incalculably dangerous radiation. The environmentalists fear that radioactive wastes will be improperly disposed of, thus posing a threat to mankind for thousands of years to come. There is also widespread worry that atomic weapons will be fashioned from plutonium obtained from nuclear-energy plants. Says Pierre Strohl of the OECD's Nuclear Energy Agency: "Peaceful application...