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Show their danger. Others like that by LLOYD SHEARER e:CAUS OF VOLUME of MAIL RECEtVEO parade REGRETS it cannot answer queries about THIS column hundred years ago the Two most admired in this men country were its statesmen: Washington, Jefferdo waste. After three decades of producing nuclear power, the establishment still doesn't know what to do with the plutonium garbage. Bury it in salt mines? Encase it in heavily leaded depositories? Or bury it in deep formations of granite? One speck of plutonium in a man's lung can cause statesmen rate in our personal value schemes? What statesmen? The industrial revolution not only changed the physical characteristics of this nation but the character of its men. Over the years we began to equate merit with money. Our society trained its to make money, second to serve the nation. result is that for The decades now this nation's best ALBERT FiNKEY AS POIROT detective and brainchild first young minds have entered the nation's corporate structure, and with suffi- cient reason. Corporations pay most for those with profit-makin- abilities. g But look at what has to many of our happened whose novel "Murder on the Orient Express" has become a sensational screen success, is about to kill her fictional detective Hercule Poirot, played in the film by Albert Finney. Dame Agatha has decided to write her last novel about her famous Belgian sleuth to whom she gave in 1920. leading corporations and the businessmen who run literary birth them. They have undermined American ideals by devel- blisher, "Dame Agatha oping secret slush funds, bribing foreign leaders, making illegal According to her pu- doesn't want her favorite to suffer the same fate as James Bond," another fictional spy hero. After Bond's creator Ian Fleming died. Bond's adventures were continued in other Agatha doesn't wish any books to be writ- films. Dame ten about Hercule Poirot after her death. Although Agatha Christie is 84 she still intends to continue writing other novels but without Poirot. She will probably kill him off in a novel tentatively entitled "Curtains." their stockholders, falsifying their books, embezzling securities, corrupting their own colleagues. Today emitted from a faulty power big business out of hand. There are thousands of honest, righteous, patriotic corporation exec- per cent of U.S. However, his colleague. Dr. Henry Kendall also of MIT and one of the found- nuclear provides This is not to condemn trick or violate the law. It is merely to point out V as recently did in hour-long an program, "The only By 1985 White Collar ," that a climate of moral malaise seems to have in- fected some sectors of this country. Two hundred years after this nation was feundei in revolution, it finds itself in need of moral reformation It is time we take inand ask ourselves: ventory What will we do and what will we not do to turn a profit? energy. scheduled to provide 30 per cent. How safe is such power human against accidents, error, wear-and-te- ar, and sabotage? The NBC-T- Rip-off- it is 3 nuclear establishment claims there is little statistical risk of catastrophe. Dr. Norman Rasmussen of author of a federal MIT, study on the risks of nuclear power, suggests that a person living in the neighborhood of a nuclear reactor has more chance of being killed by a meteor falling out of the sky than by radiation reactor. ers of the ncerned Union of Co- Scientists, points to the control room fire in the Browns Ferry nuclear complex in Alabama this past March as an example of how an ordi- nary accident might very well lead to a "meltdown." The Browns Ferry nuclear power plant, or.e of the world's two largest, was shut down for months. If a "meltdown" ever occurs, it will generate radioactive poison into the ground or the atmosphere, compelling all persons within 30 miles of the reactor to get away at or be killed. People in favor of nuclear reactors minimize once f 1 i i t i i i cancer. With 200 reactors scheduled for operation in another 10 or 15 years, what are we going to do with tons of plutonium residue? Where and how are we to bury it? Nuclear technology is potentially catastrophic, and it calls for the best minds in the nation to its future. decide on As regards nuclear power must proceed with the utmost cau- plants. Congress tion, oil shortage or oil shortage. no er UjfiPTfiPI! ESwUlntiL Hess, son of former Nazi Deputy Fuehrer Rudolph Hess, is willing to be imprisoned as a hostage if the Allied Wolf-Ruedig- campaign contributions, cheating utives who would sooner resign than turn a dirty the nation should not rely upon nuclear power because in the event of one major nuclear accident, all the nuclear reactors in the nation would probably shut down. Says Nader: "Nuclear power is unsafe, unreliable and uneconomical." Another apparently insoluble problem concerns management of radioactive son, Franklin, Adams. Whom do we admire today? How I Ralph Nader believe to will release his father ailing from prison. The Allies have kept Hess prisoner for 28 years in West Berlin's Spandau I I powers old Prison. Hess, who was tler's deputy from 1933 until his spectacular t Hi- parachute landing in 1941 in England on a "peace mission," is the only t ? I f still former Nazi chief serving a war crimes sentence in Spandau. At the Nuremberg Trials he was sentenced to life. Reportedly the U.S., France, and Groat Britain are prepared to set the old man free, but the Soviets are adamant. None of the four countries will accept his son as a hostage. f i t t |
