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Neither Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, author of this cover, nor Reporter-Researcher Nancy Williamson, who checked it, is a stranger to environmental nightmares. Williamson's Long Island community is threatened with ground-water pollution from chemicals. And Magnuson wrote TIME's cover story on the near nuclear disaster at Three Mile Island 18 months...
Back to the Brits. The Queen having recovered nicely from the recent unpleasantness, another Arab-directed group now plans to pinch a property of inestimably greater material value to the scepter'd isle. In The Samson Strike by Tony Williamson (Atheneum; 250 pages; $9.95), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine sets out to capture a vast oil platform in the North Sea that can pump 400,000 bbl. a day from its undersea wells. Unless the terrorists win the release of all political prisoners in Europeplus ?57 millionthey will waste the $400 million...
Suffering businessmen, using effective Washington lobbying, began to complain loudly. President William LaMothe of the Kellogg cereal company accused the commission of exhibiting "absence of fundamental fairness." Kentucky Senator Wendell Ford said that the agency had offended every businessman in his state. He noted that Louisville's Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., in answer to a subpoena, spent three years and $800,000 to ship the FTC 14,000 pounds of documents. Chicago-area Businessman Joseph Sugarman, the owner of a mail-order firm selling home computers and burglar alarms, took out half-page ads this month in papers around...
...number of students in introductory computer courses has vastly increased, Denise D. Williamson '82, a terminal watcher at the Science Center, said yesterday. Even so, crowding on the terminals so far has gone down slightly, she added...
...Williamson said that the number of terminal watchers working at the Science Center has doubled this year so that two are on call for every shift in the terminal room...