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...Seats in the House, an increase of two, if the proposed legislation is enacted; Utah would get the other new seat...
...military has been declining ever since our nation went to the all-volunteer force. We Americans have become so soft and liberal that we don't have the guts anymore to stand and be counted. The same is true in our civilian agencies as well. Clair Mendenhall Providence, Utah, U.S. Comrade Hu Comes Calling Re your story on Chinese president Hu Jintao's trip to the U.S. [April 24]: In visiting our democratic country, Hu represented not China's people but the Chinese Communist Party, which has been holding that nation's people hostage for more than a half-century...
...earlier? Competent leadership in the military has been declining ever since our nation went to the all-volunteer force. We Americans have become so soft that we don't have the guts anymore to stand and be counted. The same is true in our civilian agencies. CLAIR MENDENHALL Providence, Utah...
...Government, Jenkins ruled, did not deliberately expose civilians to radioactivity in the 1950s, as some have suggested, when test bombs were being detonated almost monthly. Nonetheless, officials were negligent. When winds were blowing eastward from the test site toward the sparsely populated stretches of Utah and northern Arizona, the Government seemed unconcerned. Radiation sensors were few and often operated improperly. And officials disregarded evidence of potential hazards. Said former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs: "The tragic thing is that all this could have been prevented...
...were among a vanguard group of 24 whose cases were heard by Jenkins as representative of the claims being made by relatives of 375 cancer victims. In the 14 other cases, the judge decided, atomic radiation was not clearly the cause of cancer. J. MacArthur Wright of St. George, Utah, an attorney who represented the victims, was pleased that Jenkins' decision establishes clear standards for litigating-or settling out of court-the remaining cases. "What I see as important," said Wright, "is that in all of the leukemia cases we tried, the court ruled...