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...Nuclear Regulatory Commission does its job. Such viewers should find an action last week by the NRC to be reassuring. In a case of life refuting the moviemakers' art, the commission shut down five nuclear plants in the populous East because of questions about their ability to withstand earthquakes...
...Crimson freestyle relay entries, in both the 400 and 800, are darkhorse candidates at best. But, if Hackett can withstand the physical stress of swimming five events, and Coglin, Jack Gauthier, and Julian Mack are as sharp as they were at the Easterns, anything could happen. The 800 quartet surprised many in the swimming world last year when they finished 12th...
...there were also warnings that Begin would not yield on substance. Said Cabinet Secretary Aryeh Naor: "We will not go beyond our 'red line.' Begin simply thinks that any further compromise will endanger Israel's capability to survive. It depends now on strong nerves and an ability to withstand psychological pressure...
...highlands on the Mozambique border, fleeing white farmers have abandoned some 160,000 acres of farm land, or about 10% of the acreage under cultivation; the 6,500 who remain tend their acres from within fortress-like arrays of fences, and travel through the bush in vehicles built to withstand mine explosions. Increasingly, the Rhodesian military has resorted to sending its jets on bombing raids on guerrilla camps in Zambia and Angola. Last week one such raid into Angola, according to the Patriotic Front, killed 192 and wounded nearly 1,000 guerrillas and civilians...
...after the "hard currencies" that were not being debauched by inflation, especially the Swiss franc, the mark and the yen. As the dollar plunged, these currencies rose along with the value of gold. That is now beginning to change as more investors conclude that ultimately no industrial nation can withstand inflation and energy-related shocks. Says Guy Field, a London gold dealer: "Last year the high price of gold reflected the decline of the dollar on exchange markets. But gold is now moving ahead on its own accord as people insure themselves against the fickleness of all paper currencies...