Post-Mao China rebukes Soviet aims in UN address
United Nations reports China rejects Soviet expansionism after Mao death. Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua delivers China’s first major post-Mao policy address to the General Assembly, stressing unity and continuity in policy. US is relatively unscathed by the speech as Beijing signals post-Mao stance.
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Rhodesia Talks Move Toward Zambia Meeting Edge of Falls
British Africa minister Ted Rowlands said Rhodesia’s white regime and black nationalist leaders agreed to a conference within two weeks. The meeting is expected near Livingstone Zambia at Victoria Falls. Carter gains Catholic support as Notre Dame faculty back him on abortion stance. A Virginia Catholic group plans a National Catholic Reporter ad launching Catholics for Carter, aligning with his social goals over Ford.
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Chinese nuclear fallout detected in U.S. health samples
Health officials test air soil and milk for fallout from a Chinese nuclear explosion detected in Pacific Northwest and several Eastern states. ERDA says levels pose no health risk though the event marks the most radioactivity since early atmospheric tests. Watered by rain, fallout moved east with detections across Pennsylvania New Jersey Long Island and South Carolina. Milk samples from Long Island were below measurable limits pending 24 hour tests.
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Seabrook halt reversed by NRC
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says construction can continue at Seabrook in New Hampshire until a full commission hearing later in October. The stay reverses an appeals board order that halted construction as of the prior Friday. A July appeals court ruling called for more study on radioactive waste disposal and a temporary moratorium had been in place since August 13.
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Seabrook Nuclear Plant Moratorium Battle Continues
NRC spokesman cited weeklong stay of appeals board order amid Seabrook Station inclusion in moratorium. New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution argues license date and timing affect the cutoff. Public Service Co of New Hampshire spokesman says project can proceed, while Clamshell Alliance calls the ruling shocking and disgusting as environmental groups warn of risks to humans and marine life.
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Supreme Court weighs sex bias in 3.2 beer age rule
The court heard challenges to Oklahoma’s 3.2 beer law allowing 18-year-olds to buy beer for women but not men and to a Social Security survivor rule that requires widowers to prove 75 percent support from their wives. Justices took both cases under advisement.
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Business leader warns corporate insensitivity threatens free system
John H. Filer of Aetna Life & Casualty warns the business community has weakened public trust through bribery, political contributions, insensitivity to public expectations, and resistance to environmental and work safety controls. He cautions against corporate social responsibility as mere publicity and notes the risk to the free enterprise system.
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