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Since Three Mile Island, match of the public furor over the dangers of nuclear power has abated but as the Ginna "failure" shows, the safety problems which that accident dramatically highlighted have not. Critical Mass, a Ralph Nader energy watchdog lobby, counted 3804 mishaps due to equipment failure, design flaws, and human error at the nation's 71 reactors in 1980 In 1981, nuclear power plants were shut down for safety reasons one day out of every eight. And signs for the future are ominous Thirty three nuclear plants now report cracking and corrosion in their steam generator tubes...
...citizen rebellion is building: Ralph Morrell, 62, heads a small watchdog group called Operation Slush Fund and has spent the last year exposing the legislators' "unconscionable extravagance." Lee Phelps, 51, is president of a statewide coalition called Citizens Asserting Supremacy over Taxation (CAST). Says he: "There are no controls, except by the legislators themselves. We've got to change the rules in this game where the legislators play around with our money. We've got to become the umpire." To that end, CAST has collected most of the 554,000 signatures necessary to put a measure...
John Paul picks a German Cardinal as his doctrinal watchdog...
...including the selection last September of U.S. Archbishop Paul Marcinkus as chief administrator of Vatican City. Now, at the start of John Paul's fourth year, his lineup is virtually complete. The Pope has just named West Germany's Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 54, to be his doctrinal watchdog as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (formerly the Holy Office). Ratzinger is the only internationally respected theologian in modern times to fill the post, and the Pope's second most important appointee is also perfectly attuned to John Paul's conservative views...
...though the term does not really apply, Congress took notice by holding hearings on fraud in bio-medical research. One response: the National Institutes of Health, which doles out $2 billion a year for research, has threatened to cut off any institution that fails to act as a watchdog on its workers...