Arrogance syndrome:
Garvey, John
funds. In Columbus, Gov. James ("Profit is not a dirty word in office, which now boasts of four women and four blacks (one Ohio") Rhodes is proposing a nine-member panel to oversee ...
...Did they have, animals, plants, and lagoon bottom ma- the people who made The China Syn- I asked him, a way of safely disposing of terial...
...As soon as a city gives up its indepenis contrived...
...power, face the press with the expression around this issue...
...reflection but not in regret...
...The experts with their own...
...like transit and...
...inform but to distract...
...were allowed to return there, and then ever going to happen and Arafat knows They exert a strong moral claim on the they were moved off again...
...it is impossible to imagine our gov- trap-but how strange it is for us to be led of "acceptable radiation levels...
...settler groups in the 1920s and 1930s, too II...
...negotiations last year, Zbigniew what the Palestinians notably lack...
...We're trying to lay the groundwork for the development of KEITH A. SINZINGER an economic democracy-a pre-condition of political democracy," says Kucinich, who overcame both the Republican (Keith A. Sinzinger is a journalist who has lived most of his incumbent and the Democrat-endorsed candidate to win his life in Cleveland...
...government, it runs the risk of destroying the sense of commuHe inherited a city built on years of neglect...
...All those our own people too...
...As long as people are being cheated his headline-grabbing style had broken too many political out of government resources, out of their opportunities to gain rules...
...No one in the ARROGANCE SYNDROME anti-nuclear energy movement ever deWATCHING THE EXPERTS MELT DOWN nied that people get hurt in other industries, or that other forms of energy pro" FTER ENIWETOK was made that there is something here you don't duction pollute...
...miles to the southwest...
...It is Harry Truman bragged that he didn't lose Bzrezinski suggested they had been political agitation which has managed to any sleep over Hiroshima...
...and therefore should do them...
...The consequences of our actions PLO," he said in a phrase quoted with tary skill...
...But of course this faith of the people in their leaders...
...One of them said that the melt-down have very different effects, a stake in nuclear power waved aside all Three Mile Island accident was nothing but in one important respect they are criticism...
...says...
...are considered unsafe, decades later, for conquering the orange groves of their Syria, Jordan and Egypt have fought the human habitation...
...He points out, for In other words, trust us...
...That set the guilty of an historic error...
...He admitted The other night I watched a govern- best columnists in the country, but like they didn't...
...They that we could see what bombs could do to PLO is negligible...
...What they do point out is part of the vast Pacific trus- understand, but they will tolerate your simple: a disaster in a coal mine is tragic, teeship of the United States, ignorance...
...We know their atoll and taken to Ujelang Atoll, 124 the accident at the Three Mile Island nu- what a cave-in does: it crushes and kills...
...We're working on it, ment official, an expert on nuclear most conservatives he gets all stupid though," he said...
...I was talking once with and around the islands, and traces of the are wrong to oppose it...
...The experts knew, Of several minds: Thomas Powers back when they were dropping the first bombs, that there was nothing dangerous going on...
...The sinking nity...
...There aren't any Defense Forces...
...I spend time in And Kucinich entered his office with no backlog of favors due...
...reaction it had caused...
...The Blue Reef, Walter Starck drome, a movie which in his opinion plutonium wastes, which are not only and Alan Anderson, Jr., Knopf, 1978) drastically misrepresented the safe nu- highly radioactive but have a half-life of clear power industry...
...Will is one of the tens of thousands of years...
...James ("Profit is not a dirty word in office, which now boasts of four women and four blacks (one Ohio") Rhodes is proposing a nine-member panel to oversee is both) in a cabinet of 13...
...ally suicide missions, which is why they before we accept blindly the necessity of But of course there are Palestinians, are so infrequent...
...What they all avoid is the point which Three Mile Island may now help to make clear...
...Manipula- when the PLO took over the former Is- They were too divided to resist Jewish tion came into its own during World War raeli embassy in Teheran...
...For the following clear power plant, near Harrisburg, was But we simply do not know what radiadecade, beginning in 1948, the U.S...
...When the Palestinian Liberation Organi- cities), but to build an army you need a The development of atomic power was zation refused to join the Israeli-Egyptian country, and this, of course, is precisely marked with arrogance from the start...
...The people of Bikini grandparents, but nothing of the sort is Palestinians' war, not the Palestinians...
...As a military organization the prevent their expulsion in 1948...
...The expert was explaining why cancer and genetic damage...
...they knew what was good for to worry about, not critical...
...The history of our involvement a sign of how far we have come: now we one more example of why it would be an with radiation tells us that we know less play around with the lives and futures of extremely wicked thing to restore the every year about these things...
...Like Nix- dangerously high levels of radiation, and Jimmy Carter was about to come out with on's "incursion" into Cambodia, like the one thing we do know about radiation a strong defense of nuclear energy...
...Both involve the release of us...
...On second it...
...city finances...
...sewer systems, the port, hospital and zoo-as Despite the confrontations which leave the city on the brink the tax base shrank and the population fled...
...Parts of the Bikini the Kalashnikovs in southern Lebanon sailed away, and they have depended on and Eniwetok atolls are still so hot they talk about marching into Israel and re- the rest of the Arab world ever since...
...The kids who carry depended on the British until the British land they held holy...
...Now more radiation there is, the more danger respect the Three Mile Island accident is we have another reason not to trust them, there is...
...At City Hall, critics are charging the city will "I think that the city is one of the single most important units pile up a $102 million debt by year's end, which Kucinich says of a democratic society...
...A partment of Defense proceeded to rock could go very wrong were still the best disaster involving nuclear power makes the atoll with a violence never before people to make decisions about nuclear other potential disasters look small...
...On Meet the Press the head of Gulf Oil, which has a heavy involvement A CHANCE FOR THE P.L.O...
...The nuclear industry and its governclear explosions consisting of both Several issues ago National Review ment backers have asked for a degree of atomic and hydrogen bombs...
...They hope to give the impression plant...
...But no ernment evacuating Sioux City or by people like Carter and the head of Gulf acceptable radiation level has been estab- Phoenix in order to bomb it, just to see Oil and the experts who were sure that lished, though it is understood that the what bombing will do...
...There were unau- of bankruptcy, the 32-year-old mayor has no misgivings, he ditable books, misspent bond funds, deteriorating facilities...
...are fond of similar beside-the-point arOf several minds: John Garvey guments: coal mining is also unsafe for miners, coal pollutes, coal is lightly radioactive, etc...
...it is a perverse sort of noblesse but it doesn't hang around to cause the 136 inhabitants were removed from oblige...
...it was, how- similar...
...Maybe in that one things like this could never happen...
...Before the Pennsylvania accident ever, "a continuing incident...
...a fair place in their economy-we're going to keep fighting...
...in nuclear power, said that the real problem at Three Mile Island was the over- HAVE THE PALESTINIANS LEARNED ANYTHING...
...Perhaps increased WHAT PALESTINIANS...
...and a major cause of instability in Leba- politics, but they have never been able to Commonweal: 232...
...Golda Meir non, but it is no match for the Israeli cancer rates really are required to keep used to say...
...Some of devoted an issue to nuclear energy, why trust which no one with that scary sort of the enormous craters can still be seen on we need it, and why environmentalists power deserves...
...Ra- delayed his energy address for other reastrike," this language is meant not to cism was certainly involved in our treat- sons, and then the accident happened...
...There are more Palesdying slowly from the bad ideas of board and they managed to block Arab recogni- tinians than there are Israelis, and they chairmen we might use the opportunity tion of Israel for more than 30 years, until are just about as highly educated (despite this accident offers, and reflect on the Egypt finally grew weary of the impasse...
...seen on earth, setting off forty-three nu- energy...
...nothing to worry about, maybe, and why tion does over the long haul, or the geneAtomic Energy Commission and the De- the same experts who knew that nothing tic effect of high levels of radiation...
...And it invites the hazard of control by nameless, faceless ship had been kept afloat by disposal of ballast-city assets bureaucrats working at the behest of special interest groups...
...Other advocates of nuclear power this most dangerous and least understood 27 April 1979: 231 form of energy have evolved a jargon all It is true that a diopped bomb and a And that is the point...
...We're exof amused irritation you see so often on example, that you stand more risk of get- perts...
...their image as sullen refugees in UN tent arrogance of our leaders...
...He the Pentagon's "protective reaction is that at high levels it kills people...
...It wasn't intended...
...ment of the people of Eniwetok and Bi- Lucky for him he wasn't caught in that Nuclear energy advocates speak easily kini...
...JOHN GARVEY ter...
...the faces of politicians caught with their ting cancer by being near a smoker than Like so many other experts, the people hands in the till, and other wise crimi- you do by being near a nuclear power who have risen up to defend the use of nals...
...Terrorist raids are virtuour TV sets and hair driers going, but Palestinians, only Arabs...
...After the war our exultation over The Palestinians have proved them- intransigent to accept the state offered Hiroshima's obliteration led us to dis- selves extraordinarily adept at political them by the UN in 1947, too weak to place native populations in the Pacific so agitation...
...didn't matter so much as the fact that we grim satisfaction at every public oppor- The weakness of the Palestinians has were capable of doing such grand things, tunity by Yassir Arafat, most recently been their dependence on big brother...
...Bye bye, keep the Palestinian cause alive, not militone...
...We'll find a way...
...I believe in living without regret...
...The PLO's army of 15,000 erratically conscience of the Arab world, and have thought, the experts decided that the atoll trained men is a symbol of resistance, kept their cause at the forefront of Arab wasn't healthy after all...
...x-rays weren't good for us, we learn la- was an accident...
...In a wonderfully an atomic engineer who was sure that radioactivity loosed during the tests are timed April 2nd Newsweek column nuclear power was "the wave of the fustill detectable in leftover debris, soil, George Will fumed about the motives of ture, the only way to go...
...It's not the first time the odds have been against dence and becomes a ward of the state, or of the federal him, and possibly not the last...
...Atomic testing is responsible for a higher incidence of leukemia in areas close to the test sites...
Vol. 106 • April 1979 • No. 8
