Saturday Notebook on Chernobyl and future power plans
The piece critiques Soviet disclosure after the Chernobyl disaster, contrasts Russian handling with Western scrutiny, and questions nuclear power safety. It notes Wolf Creek plant’s protections, Kansas’s energy payroll, and local hopes for a collider project between Ottawa and Emporia. It also mentions newspaper delivery innovations and a vending machine deterrent for theft.
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Chernobyl
Mikhail Gorbachev
Gorbachev
U.S
Soviet Bloc
Russia
Sweden
Ukraine
Wolf Creek
Burlington
Kansas
Buck Rogers
Ottawa
Emporia
Kaw
Kansas Power and Light
Ottawa Herald rates page details subscription costs
The Ottawa Herald lists subscription prices for trade area carriers and mail. Rates shown include monthly, quarterly, semiannual, and yearly options with separate in trade area and outside trade area pricing and a 4.5 percent sales tax deduction for out-of-state subscribers.
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S. Cedar
Ottawa
Kansas
Robert B. Wellington
The Reluctant Word Love in a Relationship Rant
MIKE ROYKO riffs on the word relationship and its overuse in romance and pop lyrics. He pities a man who lamented a ended relationship and imagines how songs would sound if the term were common. The piece jokes about significant other and related phrases transforming love into sterile jargon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike Royko
California Primary Boosts GOP Push for Senate Control
A June 3 California GOP primary narrows to a two man race between Bruce Herschensohn and Ed Zschau, with both benefiting from high tech backing and strong TV ad strategies. Cranston remains the vulnerable Democrat, while national implications hinge on whether the California result shifts Senate control for Reagan’s term.
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David S. Broder
Los Angeles
California
Senate
Reagan
Alan Cranston
Dcalif
Bruce Herschensohn
Ed Zschau
Silicon Valley
Herschensohn
Zschau
Ed Davis
Bobbi Fiedler
Los Angeles County
Mike Antonovich
Arthur Laffer
Bay Area
David Packard
Cranston
Washington, D.C
Tsongas
House
Ed Brooke
Brooke
Walter Mondale
W. Henson Moore
John
Dick Snelling
Patrick Leahy
Vermont
Wirth
Woods
Breaux
Impingement Syndrome Pain Slows Overhand Volleyball Power
A reader asks about persistent shoulder pain from overhand spiking. Dr Donohue explains impingement as a common cause, advises rest, heat, and anti inflammatory drugs, and emphasizes medical evaluation for other issues like calcium deposits. He urges careful warmups, gradual return, and shoulder stretches to prevent recurrence.
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DR. Donohue
J.D
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Gas and Electric
Wichita
Wyoming
Ottawa Herald
Messerschmidt
Massachusetts
Paul Tsongas
Edward W. Brooke
A.B
Paul G. Donohue
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