Does Green Run Radiation Test Make You See Red?
The irony is too much.
The United States, locked in a bitter Cold War, defends American citizens against the Soviet nuclear threat by conducting radiation experiments on them.
Often without letting anyone, even the subjects of the experimentation, know about it.
That, says a special presidential panel, is a “moral wrong,” giving official government affirmation to a conclusion the American public reached a long time ago.
Even if the people involved weren’t harmed, reported the White House Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, it still was wrong and those people deserve … an apology.
Except for certain egregious cases, though, there is no point in tracking down the people who were involved in something like 4,000 experiments and compensating them for the “moral wrong” that was done to them.
Here, in the area affected by the deliberate release in 1949 of radioactive iodine, known as the Green Run, how do readers feel about the committee’s recommendations? Should bygones be forgotten or is an accounting in order?
What’s this? Shy politicians?
President Clinton doesn’t even want his name on the ballot this fall.
That’s this fall. Fall 1996 is something else again.
The ballot Clinton wants to avoid is the advisory ballot being voted on in several communities around the country as a straw poll among 1996 presidential candidates.
It’s all part of CityVote, which also features (or was supposed to feature) a series of debates among the candidates.
However, the first of them, in St. Paul, Minn., has been canceled because the principals are bailing out. Republicans Bob Dole and Phil Gramm, independent Ross Perot and undecided/undeclared Colin Powell all snubbed St. Paul.
The second debate? Well, according to the schedule, Spokane on Oct. 22.
It’s nothing new for political candidates and their strategists to try to control the time, place and circumstances of their public appearances. But how does the voting public feel about the no-shows?
And if you don’t like it, what’s your recourse?
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