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...communist headquarters to protest the victory. Two others were shot dead as the protesters surged into the building, burning party files and the portraits of communist Albania's founding father, Enver Hoxha. Another shooting victim died later. The port city of Durres, besieged last month by Albanians seeking any vessel out of their blighted country, braced for a new exodus. While communist leader Ramiz Alia remains the head of both state and party, he could have trouble continuing the concessions that led to free elections. Party hard- liners are in the ascendant, and last week's crackdown could even signal...
...been accused of engineering a bold scheme in which he loaded the 12,000-ton Panama- registered Lucona with scrap metal, insured the cargo for $18.5 million as "nuclear processing equipment," then had the ship blown up after it set sail from Italy. Six people died when the vessel sank off the Maldive Islands in January...
...produces more than 1 billion kW-h of electricity a year -- about one-sixth the capacity of its more modern counterparts -- and boasts an excellent safety record. However, after decades of absorbing the high- energy neutrons that are released during nuclear reactions, the walls of Yankee Rowe's reactor vessel have begun to weaken. Just how much is not clear. This so-called reactor embrittlement is potentially the most dangerous problem faced by aging atomic plants, because a crack in these walls could expose the highly radioactive reactor core...
...hearing last September, Neal Randall, one of the agency's engineers, testified that based on worst-case calculations, he believed the "Yankee Rowe vessel is quite brittle" and was therefore unsafe to operate even for the remainder of its license. The precise extent of the problem is uncertain because the utility has run out of easily accessible test samples of the original steel used in building the vessel. Ideally, such samples are periodically examined for hidden cracks, allowing scientists to determine how much embrittlement has occurred. Although Randall's opinion was a minority view, it electrified the plant's critics...
...Germans that the Normandy invasion would be directed toward the Pas-de-Calais, and it worked. The Soviets are the masters of military wile, although they do foul up at times. In the early 1970s, the U.S. spotted a Soviet "submarine" bent by a storm, a giveaway that the vessel was a fake...