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111674924

id	111674924
date	2000-09-26
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	1610
headline	The Times and Wen Ho Lee

On March 6 , 1999 , The New York Times reported that Government investigators believed China had accelerated its nuclear weapons program with the aid of stolen American secrets . The article said the Federal Bureau of Investigation had focused its suspicions on a Chinese-American scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory . Two days later , the government announced that it had fired a Los Alamos scientist for '' serious security violations . '' Officials identified the man as Wen Ho Lee . Dr. Lee was indicted nine months later on charges that he had transferred huge amounts of restricted information to an easily accessible computer . Justice Department prosecutors persuaded a judge to hold him in solitary confinement without bail , saying his release would pose a grave threat to the nuclear balance . This month the Justice Department settled for a guilty plea to a single count of mishandling secret information . The judge accused prosecutors of having misled him on the national security threat and having provided inaccurate testimony . Dr. Lee was released on the condition that he cooperate with the authorities to explain why he downloaded the weapons data and what he did with it . The Times 's coverage of this case , especially the articles published in the first few months , attracted criticism from competing journalists and media critics and from defenders of Dr. Lee , who contended that our reporting had stimulated a political frenzy amounting to a witch hunt

110152004

id	110152004
date	1991-08-02
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	906
headline	U.S. CONFISCATING A-PLANT WIRETAPS

After learning that security personnel at the nation 's nuclear weapons plants and laboratories acquired wiretapping and eavesdropping equipment in violation of Federal regulations , the Energy Department today said it had directed its offices around the country to confiscate the equipment and send it to an agency training center in Albuquerque , N.M. . The actions , ordered by Energy Secretary James D. Watkins , came in response to a finding by the agency 's inspector general that Federal employees and the companies that operate weapons plants and laboratories for the Government had purchased an array of sophisticated listening devices . The purchase of the surveillance equipment , along with separate assertions that the University of California had wasted millions of dollars while managing the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California , were the subject of a hearing today by the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs . Rules Bar the Purchase During the hearing , the Inspector General , John C. Layton , said that although the Energy Department 's regulations specifically prohibited the purchase and use of electronic listening devices , he had found no evidence that employees or members of the public had been spyed on or that any Federal law had been broken . '' Violating a regulation is not the same as an act that is illegal '' he said . Much of Mr. Layton 's report , which is to be made public shortly , is concerned with the purchase and use of eavesdropping

110157666

id	110157666
date	1994-12-11
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	1027
headline	Ideas & Trends: Understanding the Universe (Cont.); Score a Point for Symmetry, Hobgoblin of Big Minds

WHEN an explosion is confined in a small enclosure the reverberations are that much more intense . Such was the effect of the recent discovery by the theorists Nathan Seiberg and Ed Witten of a powerful mathematical tool for use in the small domain of particle physics . Within this segment of society , the discovery of a new way to plumb the depths of a theory called supersymmetry was a far bigger deal than landing a man on the moon . For those on the outside looking in , this might all sound very esoteric . But what Dr. Witten and Dr. Seiberg have wrought may be an important milestone on the road to a grand unification theory -- physics ' ambitious plan to wrap up creation with a single elegantly knotted bow . The need to unify seems to be hard-wired into the human brain . Faced with the munificence of creation , people feel compelled to reduce it to a single essence , some all-inclusive whole . Thales declared that all was water . No , Heraclitus said , everything is made of fire . But the universe inevitably turns out to be more complicated than our maps . Aristotle chopped up the world into four essences : earth , air , fire and water . The heavens , he said , were made of a mysterious fifth element , the quintessence , called ether . Mankind Keeps Striving Driven by the urge to simplify , mankind

111663981

id	111663981
date	2011-12-11
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	824
headline	Paid Notice: Deaths CRANBERG, LAWRENCE M.

CRANBERG -- Lawrence M. , PhD . Lawrence Cranberg , 94 , passed away on November 21 , 2011 surrounded by his loving family . Cancer was the cause of death . Lawrence , a true patriot , was born on the 4th of July in 1917 in Bronx , New York , the eldest child of Fanny Rubenstein and Hyman Cranberg Polish and Russian immigrants . Lawrence married Charlotte Mount on October 31 , 1953 in New Mexico at the Old Santa Fe Courthouse . A nuclear physicist , inventor and entrepreneur , Dr. Cranberg 's career spanned seven decades , but the wonder and beauty of science was always on his mind . After graduating from Townsend Harris High School at age 16 , he matriculated from the City College of New York , Harvard University , and The University of Pennsylvania . His career in science began in 1940 at the Signal Corps . Engineering Labs where he was a Senior Physicist . Dr. Cranberg developed systems of target detection and location-based use of infra-red radiation , a precursor technology to today 's autofocus cameras . He later joined the Los Alamos National Laboratory where he became a fellow of the Atomic Energy Commission . At Los Alamos , he was a protege of Hans Bethe , and conducted groundbreaking research on high energy neutrons . Dr. Cranberg was appointed to the US delegation to the First International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy at

111655318

id	111655318
date	2009-08-31
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	357
headline	Paid Notice: Deaths Shimamoto, Yoshio

SHIMAMOTO -- Yoshio , a nuclear physicist who also did work in mathematics and computer science , died August 27 , 2009 at Franklin Care Center in Franklin Park , New Jersey . In 1971 , Dr. Shimamoto presented a proof of the Four Color Theorem that was subsequently shown to be flawed , but still served as the basis for Ph.D. theses and other works at Harvard , Princeton , Waterloo , and the University of Illinois . Born in Honolulu , Hawaii , in 1924 , Dr. Shimamoto served during World War II with the Army Signal Corps in Washington , DC , and the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey in Japan . Following graduate studies at Harvard and the University of Rochester , he joined the Reactor Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1954 and went on to work in the Nuclear Engineering Department and Applied Mathematics Division there . In 1958 , he was responsible for the logical design of Brookhaven 's MERLIN digital computer . From 1964 to 1975 , Dr. Shimamoto served as chairman of the Applied Mathematics Department at Brookhaven , responsible for management of research in mathematics and computer science . In this capacity , he also managed the laboratory 's central scientific computing facility and oversaw the funding , procurement , and development of a laboratory-wide computer network . After resigning as chairman at the end of the first year of a third five-year term , Shimamoto devoted himself to research

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111675019

id	111675019
date	2000-10-18
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	16041
headline	Exchanges Between the Candidates in the Third Presidential Debate

Following is a transcript of the presidential debate last night at Washington University in St. Louis between Vice President Al Gore and Gov. George W. Bush of Texas , as recorded by The New York Times . The moderator was Jim Lehrer of PBS . MR. LEHRER -- Good evening from the field house at Washington University in St. Louis . I 'm Jim Lehrer of The NewsHour on PBS . And I welcome you to this third and final Campaign 2000 debate between the Democratic candidate for president , Vice President Al Gore , and the Republican candidate , Gov. George W. Bush of Texas . Let 's welcome the candidates now . Before proceeding tonight , we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of Gov. Mel Carnahan of Missouri , who , along with his son and his former chief of staff , died in a private plane crash last night near St. Louis . A reminder , as we continue now , that these debates are sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates . The formats and the rules were worked out by the commission and the two campaigns . Tonight 's questions will be asked by St. Louis area voters who were identified as being uncommitted by the Gallup Organization . Earlier today , each of them wrote a question on a small card like this . Those cards were collected and then given to me this afternoon . My job ,

111648042

id	111648042
date	2006-04-18
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	1516
headline	News Summary

INTERNATIONAL A3-12 9 Die in Suicide Bombing In Israel ; Hamas Defends It A Palestinian suicide bomber carried out the deadliest attack on Israel in almost two years in Tel Aviv , killing nine and wounding dozens -- an act that Hamas , which leads the new Palestinian government , called legitimate because of recent Israeli aggression , according to a spokesman for Hamas and the Palestinian Interior Ministry . A1 Plan for Restoration of Babylon Iraqi leaders and United Nations officials are working assiduously to restore Babylon , home to one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World , and turn it into a cultural center and possibly even an Iraqi theme park . No time frame has been given , but what makes the project conceivable is that the area around Babylon is one of the safest in Iraq . A1 Violent Baghdad District Sealed American and Iraqi troops sealed off Adhamiya , one of Baghdad 's most prominent neighborhoods , home to hard-line Sunni Arabs who remain hostile to the Shiite-led government and the American presence , after a night of raging gun battles that left homes and storefronts riddled with bullets and at least one civilian dead , Iraqi officials and witnesses said . A6 U.N. Restoration Plan Stalls The director of the $ 1.6 billion plan to restore the headquarters of the United Nations said persistent objections from the United States were causing delays in meeting deadlines and jeopardizing the future of the project

111648371

id	111648371
date	2006-06-05
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	1434
headline	News Summary

INTERNATIONAL A3-13 Canadian Terror Inquiry Links Six to Local Mosque At least 6 of the 17 people arrested by Canadian authorities in a sweeping counterterrorism operation , including the group 's suspected leader , regularly attended the same store-front mosque in a middle-class Toronto suburb , fellow worshippers said . A1 Search for Justice at Mass Grave The victims in a mass grave in Ash Sham , Iraq , American and Iraqi officials say , died in Saddam Hussein 's suppression of a Shiite uprising in early 1991 . American forensic experts who came here after the 2003 invasion see their investigation as a way to hold Mr. Hussein accountable for what many Iraqi human rights experts say was the most merciless action in his 24 years in power . A1 Bomber Kills 4 in Afghanistan A suicide bomber exploded his car on the main street of Kandahar , Afghanistan , narrowly missing the governor and a Canadian military convoy , but killing four civilians and wounding at least 12 others , officials said . A13 Israeli Ready to Resume Talks Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel said he was prepared to meet the Palestinian leader , Mahmoud Abbas , to seek a resumption of negotiations based on an international peace plan . A6 Iran Threat Against U.S. Iran 's supreme religious leader warned that oil shipments from the Persian Gulf would be disrupted if the United States made a '' wrong move '' toward his country over its nuclear

111645162

id	111645162
date	2004-10-25
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	1405
headline	NEWS SUMMARY

INTERNATIONAL A3-14 Iraqi Leadership Warns Of Missing Explosives The Iraqi interim government has warned that nearly 380 tons of the world 's most powerful conventional explosives -- used to demolish buildings , produce missile warheads , and detonate nuclear weapons -- are missing from a sensitive former military installation . A1 Guerrillas dressed as policemen killed about 50 freshly trained Iraqi soldiers as the unarmed soldiers were heading home on leave . The ambush , extraordinarily ambitious in scope and violence , showed a high level of organization . A group called Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia claimed responsibility . A1 The top civilian contracting official for the Army Corps of Engineers has called for an investigation , charging that the Army granted large contracts for work in Iraq and the Balkans without following rules intended to ensure competition and fair prices to the government . A12 Iran Rejects European Proposal Iran rejected a proposal by Britain , Germany and France to suspend its uranium enrichment program in return for help builing a power reactor and to provide a supply of reactor fuel . Iran 's foreign ministry spokesman urged those countries to offer a '' more balanced '' proposal . A14 Triumph for Gaza Withdrawal Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel won a major victory as his cabinet easily approved a plan to compensate Jewish settlers who would be uprooted from the Gaza Strip under his plan for a Gaza withdrawal . A14 Karzai Close to Afghan Victory President Hamid

111648856

id	111648856
date	2006-09-04
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	1362
headline	News Summary

INTERNATIONAL A2-9 New Security Plan in Iraq Shows Early Progress After American and Iraqi troops began searching , fortifying and patrolling Dora , one of Baghdad 's bloodiest neighborhoods and one of the first covered by a new security plan , the body count has dropped steadily , with only 18 deaths last month . The challenge will be to keep the gains made there as American and Iraqi forces move on to other areas . A1 Storm Ravages Baja California Heavy rains destroyed homes , killed livestock and washed out roads through the middle of Baja California , but no people were killed , officials said , as the remnants of Tropical Storm John swept up the peninsula . A2 Iran Will Talk , Not Halt Program The United Nations secretary general , Kofi Annan , met with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and said the president was willing to enter into negotiations on his country 's nuclear program but would not agree to suspend uranium enrichment beforehand , as demanded by the Security Council . A4 Italians Land in Lebanon Hundreds of Italian marines , and their armored vehicles , landed in southern Lebanon , the first large foreign contingent of what is to become a reinforced United Nations buffer force on the border with Israel . The arrival of an expected 1,000 Italian troops will bring the total peacekeeping force to 3,250 of a projected 15,000 . A4 Iraqi Terror Leader Captured American and Iraqi troops have

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110154790

id	110154790
date	1993-01-01
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	1075
headline	Ukraine, Stumbling Block at End of Nuclear Race

As President Bush and President Boris N. Yeltsin of Russia prepare to sign a treaty cutting deep into their nuclear arsenals , Ukraine has been tugging at their sleeves with an awkward and unwelcome question : How much will it cost to get rid of weapons of mass destruction , and who is going to foot the bill ? The United States has pledged $ 800 million to help the states of the former Soviet Union cope with the enormous task of dismantling a vast arsenal of chemical , nuclear and biological weapons . But diplomats here say the cost is likely to be considerably greater . In Moscow this week , a Ukrainian diplomat told reporters that the cost to Ukraine alone will be more than $ 1.5 billion , a sum he called on the international community to pay . Some experts say that Ukraine 's hesitations about renouncing its nuclear status are already casting a pall over the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty , known as Start II , even before it is signed in Moscow this weekend . Lisbon Pacts Await Approval Concerns about costs , but also about Ukrainian security , are the main reasons the Ukrainian Parliament has balked at ratification of arms-reduction agreements reached earlier this year in Lisbon . There , all four of the Soviet Union 's successor states with nuclear weapons -- Russia , Ukraine , Kazakhstan and Belarus -- agreed to abide by Start I , which made the

110151854

id	110151854
date	1991-07-13
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	1399
headline	U.S. GIVES SOVIETS A NEW PROPOSAL FOR NUCLEAR PACT

Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d presented Foreign Minister Aleksandr A. Bessmertnykh of the Soviet Union with a new approach today for settling the issues holding up a nuclear arms reduction treaty , but the two ministers wrangled over the details all day , Administration officials said . The two sides broke up their third day of talks late in the evening and scheduled an unexpected bargaining session for Saturday . One official said that Mr. Baker and Mr. Bessmertnykh appeared to be narrowing their differences on two critical issues : how to define new types of missiles for the purposes of the treaty and how to monitor each other 's missile tests to insure compliance with the treaty . But the third and final major issue -- '' downloading , '' or how many spare spaces for warheads each side can keep on its missiles -- remained an obstacle , with the Soviets rejecting Mr. Baker 's proposals . All or Nothing In proposing a new , comprehensive approach for settling the treaty issues , the Americans told the Soviets that they must accept the plan in full , officials said , or its separate elements would be invalid . The package incorporates some of the new proposals that Mr. Bessmertnykh brought from Moscow . Mr. Baker and Mr. Bessmertnykh are to meet on Saturday to see if they can finally close the treaty . American officials said they could not predict whether the ministers would reach agreement

110151623

id	110151623
date	1991-06-04
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	1116
headline	FRANCE WILL SIGN 1968 NUCLEAR PACT

Twenty-three years after a treaty banning the spread of nuclear weapons went into effect , France announced today that it would finally join the United States , the Soviet Union , Britain and 139 other nations as a signer of the accord . The French announcement was coupled with a package of ambitious proposals for arms control worldwide , including calls for the destruction of chemical weapons , a ban on production of biological weapons , reduction of nuclear arsenals and negotiations to limit the multi-billion-dollar trade in conventional armaments . The plan was announced by President Francois Mitterrand just days after President Bush proposed a ban on weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East . French officials said the two plans were complementary , although the French initiative favors a global approach to arms control . Both proposals are to be taken up in Paris this month at a meeting of arms control experts from the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council : the United States , the Soviet Union , China , Britain and France . Officials said the French plan was conveyed to both President Bush and the Soviet President , Mikhail S. Gorbachev , over the weekend . French officials said Mr. Bush telephoned President Mitterrand to congratulate him on France 's decision to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty . The treaty , the subject of intensive negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union in the mid-1960 's , bans the

110152795

id	110152795
date	1991-12-09
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	1178
headline	The Union Is Buried: What's Being Born?

Ever since the August coup d'etat , the Soviet Union has been dying a lingering death , its final agony stretched over months of crisis and negotiations while it was kept alive largely by the frantic faith of one man , Mikhail S. Gorbachev , the Soviet President . Today , the union died -- if future historians will accept a death warrant signed by the patient itself as proof , which is how the leaders of Russia , Ukraine and Byelorussia intended their statement , signed in the Byelorussian border town of Brest , to be read . The Brest statement does not reckon with Mr. Gorbachev ; it simply ignores him , which only made his appearance tonight on Soviet television all the more poignant as he once again pleaded , cajoled and banged his fists , making the case that without a union the country will fall apart . But for some time now , Mr. Gorbachev 's warnings have had a hollow ring , since for most people , the collapse he keeps warning about has already happened . This is a fact they can confirm with their daily lives , as they go to factories that have run out of materials , to office jobs where they have stopped getting salaries or to shops where there are no goods . A Fresh Start ? By sweeping the old structures out of the way , President Boris N. Yeltsin of Russia , President Leonid M. Kravchuk

110134625

id	110134625
date	1984-12-02
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	754
headline	MR. REAGAN, GENEVA IS NOT APPOMATTOX

The meeting between Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko scheduled for early January offers President Reagan a unique opportunity to get the arms control agreement he now describes as his first priority . The Soviet Union has agreed to talk , without conditions , about '' the entire complex of questions concerning nuclear and space weapons . '' In order to agree to meet for this purpose , the Soviet leaders have had to swallow a year 's worth of verbiage . They walked out of the talks on intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe when deployment of United States Pershing 2 and ground - launched cruise missiles began last November . Then they refused to set a date for resumption of the strategic arms reductions talks on intercontinental ballistic missiles , submarine - launched ballistic missiles and strategic bombers . Until last week , they had insisted on removal of all United States missiles from Europe as the price for their return . Does the evident Soviet eagerness to get back to the bargaining table constitute a victory for President Reagan 's policy of talking tough and presenting tough negotiating demands ? It may - if he knows how to be a good winner . Konstantin U. Chernenko and his colleagues are clearly concerned about having to match United States technology in a competition in space weapons . Moreover , the stagnant Soviet economy will be hard put to bear the heavy costs

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111641027

id	111641027
date	2002-12-08
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	16536
headline	Notable Books

This list has been selected from books reviewed since the Holiday Books issue of December 2001 . It is meant to suggest some of the high points in this year 's fiction and poetry , nonfiction , children 's books , mysteries and science fiction . The books are arranged alphabetically under genre headings . The complete reviews of these books may be found at nytimes.com/books . FICTION & POETRY ACCIDENTS IN THE HOME . By Tessa Hadley . -LRB- Holt , $ 23 . -RRB- The link between reading and adultery , refined and elaborated since Flaubert , governs affairs in this rewarding , concentrated first novel about a voraciously literate 29-year-old Englishwoman and her family and her glamorous childhood friend -LRB- and the friend 's boyfriend , who may be no reader at all -RRB- . THE ADVENTURES OF MILES AND ISABEL . By Tom Gilling . -LRB- Atlantic Monthly , $ 23 . -RRB- A beguiling novel that celebrates a young 19th-century Australian who thinks he can build a flying machine ; his opposite number , Isabel , is fairly skeptical about flight but not about love , and both of them are suckers for a good supply of dreams . AFTER NATURE . By W. G. Sebald . -LRB- Random House , $ 21.95 . -RRB- A book-length poem in which the painter Matthias Grunewald , the naturalist Georg Steller and the author himself inhabit a meditation on the sources of the catastrophic imagination , the

110153814

id	110153814
date	1992-05-31
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	9240
headline	Books for Vacation Reading

Biography , Autobiography , Memoir THE ABANDONED BAOBAB : The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman . By Ken Bugul . -LRB- Lawrence Hill , cloth , $ 18.95 ; paper , $ 9.95 . -RRB- This pseudonymous personal history takes a brave , ambitious young woman from her village in Senegal to Brussels , where she barely rescues herself from a course of self-destruction . AFTER GREAT PAIN : A New Life Emerges . By Diane Cole . -LRB- Summit , $ 20 . -RRB- An autobiographical account of the courageous -- and finally triumphant -- reconstruction of one woman 's life after an almost unimaginable run of grief and misfortune . AN AMERICAN ENGINEER IN STALIN 'S RUSSIA : The Memoirs of Zara Witkin , 1932-1934 . Edited by Michael Gelb . -LRB- University of California , $ 29.95 . -RRB- This fascinating memoir relates the struggles of an American socialist and civil engineer , in love with a Russian movie actress , in a country where nothing worked . THE CHAIRMAN . John J. McCloy : The Making of the American Establishment . By Kai Bird . -LRB- Simon & Schuster , $ 30 . -RRB- A life of the friend and adviser to nine Presidents , perhaps the most powerful American who was never really famous . CHURCHILL : A Life . By Martin Gilbert -LRB- Holt , $ 35 . -RRB- Rather than attemping a historian 's judgment , the author stitches together bits of a

110160877

id	110160877
date	1997-06-01
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	5818
headline	Summer Reading

This list has been selected from books reviewed since the Christmas Books issue of December 1996 . It is meant to suggest some of the high points in this year 's fiction , poetry , nonfiction , mysteries and science fiction . The books are arranged alphabetically under genre headings . FICTION & POETRY ABBREVIATING ERNIE . By Peter Lefcourt . -LRB- Villard , $ 24 . -RRB- A lively farce about a woman who is tried for killing her husband in an aggravating way ; unlike real life , the affair has a moral center in two reporters who finally cry '' Enough ! '' THE ACTUAL . By Saul Bellow . -LRB- Viking , $ 17.95 . -RRB- In this novella , intelligence and stylistic beauty compensate for inconsistencies of plot in the story of a man 's pursuit of his ideal love . ALIAS GRACE . By Margaret Atwood . -LRB- Nan A. Talese/Doubleday , $ 24.95 . -RRB- Grisly but playfully devious , spiced with spooky plot twists , this high Gothic novel is based on an actual murder -LRB- did the scullery maid really do it ? -RRB- in 1840 's Toronto . ALTERED STATES . By Anita Brookner . -LRB- Random House , $ 23 . -RRB- Condemned to the mines of despair , the prisoner of Ms. Brookner 's latest novel - a man this time - seeks surcease from a ruinous obsessive love in a cold and misty solitude . AMERICAN PASTORAL

111648180

id	111648180
date	2006-05-07
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	7296
headline	Mutants and Devils (And a Hero or Two)

All dates are subject to change . May Already Opened An American Haunting -- Tennessee in the 1880 's , and a forward-looking demon is already haunting an attractive young teenager -LRB- Rachel Hurd Wood -RRB- and her family -LRB- Donald Sutherland , Sissy Spacek -RRB- . Courtney Solomon directs . Art School Confidential -- From the '' Ghost World '' team -- the director Terry Zwigoff and the graphic novelist Daniel Clowes -- a hard look at life in an East Coast art school , as experienced by a freshman played by Max Minghella . With John Malkovich , Jim Broadbent and Anjelica Huston . Crazy Like a Fox -- Roger Rees as a Southern patriarch who revolts against the carpetbaggers who have taken over his family farm by moving into a cave on the property . With Mary McDonnell . Richard Squires directs . Down in the Valley -- Fleeing from a troubled family , a teenage girl -LRB- Evan Rachel Wood -RRB- and her sickly younger brother -LRB- Rory Culkin -RRB- fall in with a wanderer -LRB- Edward Norton -RRB- who believes he 's a cowboy . From the director David Jacobson ; it sounds a little more cheerful than his previous film , '' Dahmer . '' FOLLOWING SEAN -- The filmmaker Ralph Arlyck returns to San Francisco in search of the 4-year-old flower child he interviewed in 1967 . Surprise : He 's got a steady job and is doing a lot better than his

110153232

id	110153232
date	1992-02-09
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	1263
headline	BEST SELLERS: February 9, 1992

Weeks This Last On Week Week List Fiction 1 1 3 HIDEAWAY , by Dean R. Koontz . -LRB- Putnam , $ 22.95 . -RRB- A man miraculously resuscitated after he has technically died is haunted by visions of evil . 2 2 18 SCARLETT , by Alexandra Ripley . -LRB- Warner , $ 24.95 . -RRB- The sequel to '' Gone With the Wind . '' 3 4 7 DISNEY 'S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST . -LRB- Gallery Books/Penguin USA , $ 6.98 . -RRB- A retelling of the classic fairy tale in words and pictures . 4 3 3 LINE OF FIRE , by W. E. B. Griffin . -LRB- Putnam , $ 21.95 . -RRB- The fifth volume of '' The Corps '' tells of an attempt to rescue marines during World War II . 5 6 4 BLINDSIGHT , by Robin Cook . -LRB- Putnam , $ 21.95 . -RRB- A physician investigates a series of strange deaths . 6 9 3 PRIVATE EYES , by Jonathan Kellerman . -LRB- Bantam , $ 21.50 . -RRB- The psychologist-detective Alex Delaware to the rescue of an actress menaced by a man recently released from prison . 7 5 17 NEEDFUL THINGS , by Stephen King . -LRB- Viking , $ 24.95 . -RRB- A newcomer opens a shop in Castle Rock , Me. , bringing bargains as well as nightmares . 8 7 12 NO GREATER LOVE , by Danielle Steel . -LRB- Delacorte , $ 23

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110150834

id	110150834
date	1990-12-09
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	1345
headline	Travel Advisory

Mideast Crisis Makes Cruises Alter Course Enthusiasm for taking cruises to the eastern Mediterranean has all but disappeared because of tensions in the Middle East . Two deluxe cruise lines , Crystal Cruises and the Seabourn Cruise Line , have responded by canceling their plans to operate ships in the region next year . Duncan Beardsley , president of Seabourn , said , '' People are still interested in the Mediterranean , but not the eastern part . '' Seabourn , based in San Francisco , said it had rerouted six cruises of the Seabourn Pride , a 204-passenger ship , which had been scheduled to embark from Venice and make stopovers in Istanbul between May and August . Instead of Istanbul , Seabourn said the ship will make stopovers in Lisbon , Nice and other western Mediterranean ports . Crystal , based in Los Angeles , said its 960-passenger Crystal Harmony , which was to make seven cruises in the eastern Mediterranean between August and November , would be recalled to the United States . Crystal said the ship would likely operate between New York and Montreal , with stopovers in New England . Before the tensions arising from Iraq 's seizure of Kuwait , the ship 's destinations were to have included Istanbul , Odessa and Alexandria . '' We are responding to our guests ' requests , '' said Darlene Papalini , a Crystal spokeswoman . '' There is just a reluctance to travel to the eastern

110156576

id	110156576
date	1994-03-20
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	1109
headline	Method and Madness; DO MOLES MATTER

The cold war is dead but the spy business still lives . Last month , a C.I.A. officer , Aldrich Ames , was arrested on charges of being a longtime Moscow mole . And from dark and secret waters there suddenly surfaced a previously unknown class of Navy submarines that for decades has apparently retrieved cold war booty from the abysses of the ocean floor . These echoes from the past prompt a question : Since the Soviet Union 's foremost enemy was its own economic system , what difference did 45 years of intelligence operations really make to the outcome of the cold war ? In hot wars , it certainly helps to have spies to signal the enemy 's intentions , like those who warned Stalin of Hitler 's invasion plans ; too bad that Stalin did n't believe them . But when the shooting stops , spy agencies seem to spend a lot of time just chasing each other rather than things that matter . The C.I.A. vigorously tries to penetrate the K.G.B. and G.R.U. -- several of the Russians whom Ames allegedly betrayed were counterintelligence officers , as was he . Moscow 's prime target is the C.I.A. and National Security Agency . It 's hard for outsiders to assess the importance of these cloak-and-dagger duels because the insiders so seldom tell the truth about them . But even the figures of speech in which they are usually described -- Russian matryoshka dolls , wildernesses of

110150873

id	110150873
date	1990-12-16
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	1396
headline	NASA Aura Dims as City Fights Rocket Test

Back in the 1960 's , when the space program started testing rocket motors in a big tract of swamp near here , many people felt proud and patriotic about the loud noises and smoke plumes in their woods . Those kinds of feelings for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are now rare . What once was a symbol of America 's scientific superiority has lost prestige everywhere due to some spectacular failings , and along this stretch of the Gulf Coast the space agency is now commonly viewed with fear and distrust . The dispute here is over a plan by the agency to test a new rocket motor for the space shuttle . Despite repeated assurances from NASA , many residents fear that the tests , each of which will release 350 tons of chemicals into the woods about 12 miles from Main Street , will pollute the environment and endanger the public . ' Nothing but Moonshine ' Unlike the liquid-fuel motors that have been tested here in the past and that produce exhaust made up of water vapor , the new one uses solid fuel and produces an exhaust composed of hydrogen chloride gas , particles of aluminum compounds and other chemicals . '' When NASA first came in , there was nothing much but moonshine in Hancock County , and it was really great for us to feel like we had something to do with sending Americans to the moon , '' said Dr.

110159958

id	110159958
date	1996-09-04
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	1097
headline	The Endless Battle, Iraq, the Kurds and the United States

Six years after Iraq invaded Kuwait the United States remains mired in conflict with the regime of Saddam Hussein , this time striking with cruise missiles in retribution for his army 's operations in Kurdish regions in the north . For years , rebellious Kurds have fought against the Baghdad authorities and among themselves . After expelling Iraq from Kuwait in 1991 , the American-led coalition came to the Kurds ' aid and forbade Iraq from repressing them within a protected enclave . But as one Kurdish faction turned to Baghdad for aid against an Iranian-backed rival , Iraqi forces drove into the protected zone , triggering this week 's American attack . John H. Cushman Jr. . IRAQI FORCES The Iraqi military is a shadow of the 1.2 million-man force it was at the start of the Persian Gulf war . But many of its heavy weapons survived the war , and Iraq is estimated to have recovered about 80 percent of its prewar weapons manufacturing capacity , although it is prohibited from making chemical or nuclear arms . FORCES TROOPS : about 400,000 Backbone is Republican Guard , whose divisions are given priority in weapons , training and responsibility . ELITE FORCES : 15,000 Special Security Organization controls the capital and protects Saddam Hussein . Other intelligence and security forces help root out and suppress internal opposition . AIR POWER AIRCRAFT : 250 Mostly Russian combat aircraft , they are of little use because of the no-flight zones

111644676

id	111644676
date	2004-08-06
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	1391
headline	36 Hours | Portsmouth, N.H.

DRIVING into town along Market Street , it is hard to miss the fact that Portsmouth is still a working deep-water port , with scrap metal -LRB- and other goods -RRB- going out , and salt for New England roads -LRB- and other goods -RRB- coming in . Yet , beyond the state-owned Port of New Hampshire , Market Street leads to a charming downtown filled with eccentric and upscale galleries , restaurants and bars . That 's the Portsmouth paradox : It 's a seacoast town without a beach , an escapist retreat with a decidedly real-world spin . Settled in 1623 , Portsmouth grew to importance as a shipbuilding center making wood-masted ships for the King 's Navy . Four fires in the first half of the 1800 's led the residents to build with brick , creating a legacy of remarkable 19th-century city architecture . For most people heading north to Maine , Portsmouth is simply an exit off Interstate 95 . But anyone who takes the time to stop and explore will undoubtedly be charmed by this working-class town that has expanded to comfortably include cozy inns , unusual boutiques and a stylish vacation attitude . DAVID A. KELLY Friday 6 p.m. 1 -RRB- Tugboat City A working harbor means tugboats , which in Portsmouth are often docked downtown , along the side of Ceres Street . The blunt-nosed red and black Moran tugs are used to guide ships up and down the swift currents and

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111650437

id	111650437
date	2007-05-25
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	15493
headline	The Listings: May 25 - May 31

Selective listings by critics of The New York Times of new and noteworthy cultural events in the New York metropolitan region this week . ? denotes a highly recommended film , concert , show or exhibition . Theater Approximate running times are in parentheses . Theaters are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted . Full reviews of current shows , additional listings , show times and tickets : nytimes.com/theater . Previews and Openings ' BEYOND GLORY ' Previews start today . Opens on June 21 . War stories from Stephen Lang in this solo play based on the tales of eight veterans from World War II , Korea and Vietnam -LRB- 1:20 -RRB- . Laura Pels Theater , 111 West 46th Street , -LRB-212-RRB- 719-1300 . ' THE BUTCHER OF BARABOO ' In previews ; opens on June 11 . Did the butcher of Baraboo , Wis. , kill her husband ? Find out in this black comedy -LRB- 2:00 -RRB- . McGinn/Cazale Theater , 2162 Broadway , at 76th Street , -LRB-212-RRB- 246-4422 . ' CRAZY MARY ' In previews ; opens on June 3 . In A. R. Gurney 's new play , Sigourney Weaver stars as a woman who discovers that her cousin , the title character and a patient in a psychiatric hospital , holds the keys to the family fortune -LRB- 2:00 -RRB- . Playwrights Horizons , 416 West 42nd Street , Clinton , -LRB-212-RRB- 279-4200 . ' EURYDICE ' Previews start on Wednesday . Opens on June 18

111647520

id	111647520
date	2006-01-27
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	14752
headline	The Listings: Jan. 27 - Feb. 2

Selective listings by critics of The New York Times of new and noteworthy cultural events in the New York metropolitan region this week . * denotes a highly recommended film , concert , show or exhibition . Theater Approximate running times are in parentheses . Theaters are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted . Full reviews of current shows , additional listings , showtimes and tickets : nytimes.com/theater . Previews and Openings ' DECEMBER FOOLS ' Previews start today . Opens Wednesday . Marie discovers some explosive secrets about her late Broadway composer father and her estranged mother in Sherman Yellen 's drama -LRB- 2:15 -RRB- . Abington Theater Arts Complex , 312 West 36th Street ; -LRB-212-RRB- 868-4444 . ' LENNY BRUCE ... IN HIS OWN WORDS ' Previews start Monday . Opens Wednesday . Since this legendary comic has been dead for years , this solo play , created from verbatim transcripts of his famous routines , might be the next best thing -LRB- 1:10 -RRB- . Zipper Theater , 336 West 37th Street ; -LRB-212-RRB-239-6200 . ' RABBIT HOLE ' Opens Thursday . A husband and wife drift apart in the wake of a terrible accident in David Lindsay-Abaire 's new family drama . Cynthia Nixon and Tyne Daly star -LRB- 2:10 -RRB- . Biltmore Theater , 261 West 47th Street ; -LRB-212-RRB- 239-6200 . ' BAREFOOT IN THE PARK ' Opens Feb. 16 . Patrick Wilson and Amanda Peet star in Neil Simon 's classic romantic comedy about New

111650404

id	111650404
date	2007-05-18
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	14916
headline	The Listings: May 18 - May 24

Selective listings by critics of The New York Times of new and noteworthy cultural events in the New York metropolitan region this week . * denotes a highly recommended film , concert , show or exhibition . Theater Approximate running times are in parentheses . Theaters are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted . Full reviews of current shows , additional listings , show times and tickets : nytimes.com/theater . Previews and Openings ' THE BUTCHER OF BARABOO ' Previews start on Thursday . Opens on June 11 . Did the butcher of Baraboo , Wis. , kill her husband ? Find out in this black comedy -LRB- 2:00 -RRB- . McGinn/Cazale Theater , 2162 Broadway , at 76th Street , -LRB-212-RRB- 246-4422 . ' CRAZY MARY ' In previews ; opens on June 3 . In A. R. Gurney 's new play , Sigourney Weaver stars as a woman who discovers that her cousin , the title character , who is a patient in a psychiatric hospital , holds the keys to the family fortune -LRB- 2:00 -RRB- . Playwrights Horizons , 416 West 42nd Street , Clinton , -LRB-212-RRB- 279-4200 . ' IN A DARK DARK HOUSE ' In previews ; opens on June 7 . Neil LaBute 's latest drama features Frederick Weller and Ron Livingston as hostile siblings sorting out a history of abuse -LRB- 1:30 -RRB- . Lucille Lortel Theater , 121 Christopher Street , West Village , -LRB-212-RRB- 279-4200 . ' PHALLACY ' Opens tonight . An art

111650372

id	111650372
date	2007-05-11
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	15112
headline	The Listings: May 11 - May 17

Selective listings by critics of The New York Times of new and noteworthy cultural events in the New York metropolitan region this week . * denotes a highly recommended film , concert , show or exhibition . Theater Approximate running times are in parentheses . Theaters are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted . Full reviews of current shows , additional listings , show times and tickets : nytimes.com/theater . Previews and Openings ' CRAZY MARY ' Previews start today . Opens on June 3 . In A. R. Gurney 's new play , Sigourney Weaver stars as a woman who discovers that her cousin , the title character , who is a patient in a psychiatric hospital , holds the keys to the family fortune -LRB- 2:00 -RRB- . Playwrights Horizons , 416 West 42nd Street , Clinton , -LRB-212-RRB- 279-4200 . ' GASLIGHT ' In previews ; opens on Thursday . The always fascinating Brian Murray stars in Patrick Hamilton 's thriller about a man who drives his wife insane -LRB- 2:00 -RRB- . Irish Repertory Theater , 132 West 22nd Street , Chelsea , -LRB-212-RRB- 727-2737 . ' IN A DARK DARK HOUSE ' Previews start on Wednesday . Opens on June 7 . Neil LaBute 's latest drama features Frederick Weller and Ron Livingston as hostile siblings sorting out a history of abuse . Lucille Lortel Theater , 121 Christopher Street , West Village , -LRB-212-RRB- 279-4200 . ' PASSING STRANGE ' In previews ; opens on Monday . The

111647617

id	111647617
date	2006-02-10
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	15061
headline	The Listings: Feb. 10 - Feb. 16

Selective listings by critics of The New York Times of new and noteworthy cultural events in the New York metropolitan region this week . * denotes a highly recommended film , concert , show or exhibition . Theater Approximate running times are in parentheses . Theaters are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted . Full reviews of current shows , additional listings , showtimes and tickets : nytimes.com/theater . Previews and Openings ' JUMP/CUT ' Opens Sunday . Neena Beber 's cinematic , dry play about the love triangle of two aspiring filmmakers and a manic-depressive was a hit in Washington . Leigh Silverman directs -LRB- 2:10 -RRB- . Julia Miles Theater , 424 West 55th Street , Clinton ; -LRB-212-RRB- 239-6200 . ' THE SEVEN ' Opens Sunday . The hip-hop theater pioneer Will Power 's large-cast adaptation of Aeschylus ' '' Seven Against Thebes . '' Jo Bonney directs -LRB- 2:00 -RRB- . New York Theater Workshop , 79 East Fourth Street , East Village ; -LRB-212-RRB- 239-6200 . ' FANNY HILL ' Opens Tuesday . A musical based on the 18th-century novel about a country girl who moves to London to become a prostitute -LRB- 2:00 -RRB- . York Theater , at St. Peter 's Lutheran Church , 619 Lexington Avenue , at East 54th Street ; -LRB-212-RRB- 868-4444 . ' I LOVE YOU BECAUSE ' Opens Tuesday . Mr. Darcy becomes Marcy in this gender-switching musical retelling of '' Pride and Prejudice , '' which stars Stephane D'Abruzzo from ''

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110150789

id	110150789
date	1990-12-01
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	3805
headline	Excerpts From President's News Conference on Crisis in Gulf

Following are excerpts from President Bush 's news conference yesterday in Washington , as recorded by The New York Times : OPENING STATEMENT I have a statement -- an opening statement -- that is a little longer than normal and I 'd ask your indulgence , and then I will be glad to respond to questions . We 're in the gulf because the world must not and can not reward aggression . And we 're there because our vital interests are at stake . And we 're in the gulf because of the brutality of Saddam Hussein . We 're dealing with a dangerous dictator all too willing to use force , who has weapons of mass destruction and is seeking new ones and who desires to control one of the world 's key resources -- all at a time in history when the rules of the post-cold-war world are being written . Objectives of U.S. . Our objectives remain what they were since the outset . We seek Iraq 's immediate and unconditional withdrawal from Kuwait . We seek the restoration of Kuwait 's legitimate Government . We seek the release of all hostages and the free functioning of all embassies . And we seek the stability and security of this critical region of the world . We are not alone in these goals and objectives . The United Nations , invigorated with a new sense of purpose , is in full agreement . The United Nations Security

111646382

id	111646382
date	2005-06-09
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	1269
headline	Dancing With the Dictator

THERE are hopes that President Bush 's meeting tomorrow with President Roh Moo Hyun of South Korea , coming on the heels of the latest North Korean overture on restarting nuclear-weapons negotiations , may lead to a breakthrough . However , anyone who expects the South to help us put pressure on the North has n't been paying much attention to what has happened between the two countries over the last five years . Since South Korea 's president at the time , Kim Dae Jung , met with North Korea 's Kim Jong Il in 2000 -LRB- and pocketed a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts -RRB- , Seoul has gone to remarkable lengths to gain the North 's trust . Unsurprisingly , the only real changes under this Sunshine Policy have occurred in South Korea . And efforts by President Roh , who was elected in 2002 , to engage Kim Jong Il have led him to plunge his own nation into North Korea 's world of lies . For example , Seoul no longer sees any evidence of North Korea 's crimes : the government tries to keep South Korean newscasts from showing a smuggled tape of the public execution of '' criminals '' by the North that has been broadcast in Japan and elsewhere ; reports that China is shipping refugees back to North Korea are denied by the Roh government ; the North 's testing of chemical weapons on live prisoners goes largely unmentioned ;

110152671

id	110152671
date	1991-11-18
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	1430
headline	BAKER'S CHINA TRIP FAILS TO PRODUCE PLEDGE ON RIGHTS

Three days of talks between Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d and China 's leaders ended today with some limited Chinese gestures to curb missile sales but with little progress toward easing China 's suppression of human rights . Mr. Baker 's talks , which both sides suggested were quite blunt , marked the first public high-level contact between the Bush Administration and China since the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989 . Congress is now expected to scrutinize the limited results of the visit to determine whether it really justified the recognition it conferred on China 's hard-line leaders and whether it supports the Administration 's argument that engagement with China is more likely to change its behavior than punishment and trade sanctions . ' The Gulf Is Too Wide ' '' It has now been two and one-half years since the tragedy of Tiananmen , '' Mr. Baker said at a news conference at the close of his 18 hours of talks with China 's leaders . '' Unless we were to keep U.S.-China relations in the deep freeze forever , we had to start talking . I did not come here expecting a dramatic breakthrough . The gulf is too wide to accomplish that in one trip . '' American intelligence officials indicated that China 's senior leaders were up most of Saturday night debating what concessions to offer Mr. Baker today , after giving him virtually nothing on the first two days of his visit

110153602

id	110153602
date	1992-04-11
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	617
headline	Iraq Tells U.N. That Surveillance Flights Might Be Shot Down

Clashing again with the Security Council , President Saddam Hussein of Iraq has said photographic surveillance flights that the United Nations is conducting over Iraq using a borrowed American U-2 spy plane might be shot down . The Iraqi Government is calling for the suspension of those flights , which hunt for secret stores of weapons of mass destruction , and says they are being used for illicit intelligence gathering . Baghdad warned that as a result of the Iranian air attack last Sunday on a military training camp for Iranian rebels in Iraq , its forces might mistake the U-2 for an attacking Iranian warplane and accidentally shoot it down . Letter Cites Iranian Attack In a letter to Rolf Ekeus , head of the commission charged with finding and destroying Iraq 's nuclear , chemical and biological weapons , Baghdad said the flights had been endangered by '' the recent treacherous Iranian attack on our territory '' and called for their suspension '' to avoid any unfortunate incidents . '' The Security Council reacted angrily to the threat tonight , expressing '' grave concern '' at the Iraqi move and warning Baghdad that it faced '' serious consequences '' if it failed to insure the safety of those flights -- a phrase , diplomats say , that could imply military action . '' The members of the Council call upon the Government of Iraq to take all necessary steps to insure that the Iraqi military forces will not

110152976

id	110152976
date	1992-01-01
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	524
headline	Editorial Notebook; The World Through Beijing's Eyes

From America , China 's leaders look tough , dangerous and maddeningly contemptuous of international opinion . From close up , they look worried about adverse international trends , frightened by their post-Tiananmen isolation and willing to make pragmatic concessions . There 's no getting around many pernicious Chinese policies . But by understanding Beijing 's state of mind , Washington can respond in ways that increase American leverage . Beijing offends international decency in a variety of ways . It profits from prison labor and tolerates copyright piracy . It relentlessly persecutes people who campaign for democracy and for self-rule in Tibet . It supplies arms to Myanmar 's murderous State Law and Order Restoration Council and , until recently , to Cambodia 's genocidal Khmer Rouge . It exports missiles to Syria and shares nuclear technology with Iran , Algeria and Pakistan . When other countries protest , Beijing accuses them of impermissible interference in Chinese domestic affairs or colonialist trampling on China 's culture and sovereignty . No context can justify China 's misdeeds or negate the need for a vigorous American response . The challenge for Washington is to find responses likely to yield constructive results . Deng Xiaoping and his hard-line allies crushed the 1989 democracy protests because they believed their survival was at stake . Now , Beijing believes it has restored political stability . China 's rulers are unlikely to agree to release all political prisoners immediately for fear of resurrecting a powerful

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110151467

id	110151467
date	1991-05-03
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	1440
headline	Nuclear Panel Says Reactor Can Restart, Giving Industry Lift

Deciding that one of the most ambitious nuclear power programs in the nation has solved longstanding design and management problems , the Nuclear Regulatory Commission today approved the restart of a nuclear reactor at the Browns Ferry plant in Alabama . The decision , which could open the plant 's Unit 2 reactor within 10 days , was hailed today by the Tennessee Valley Authority , which owns and operates the reactor in northern Alabama , and by others in the nuclear power industry as a significant vote of confidence for the utility and the industry . The reactor has been shut for more than six years , the longest shutdown for repairs in the history of the American civilian nuclear power program . '' The restart of any plant after an extended outage is a sign of an industry where problems are corrected after they are brought to light , '' said Steve Unglesbee , a spokesman for the United States Council for Energy Awareness , a nuclear power industry trade group in Washington . Critics of nuclear power denounced the action , saying that the regulatory agency exempted Browns Ferry , just outside Athens , Ala. , from a number of crucial safety guidelines , most having to do with the plant 's ability to fight fires . They noted that on Monday , a fire and explosion shut a nuclear power plant in Maine indefinitely . The accident occurred in a transformer and generator at the plant

110157449

id	110157449
date	1994-10-13
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	480
headline	Dismantling of the Shoreham Nuclear Plant Is Completed

A two-year project to decommission the $ 5.5 billion Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant is finished and all radioactive material has been removed , Richard M. Kessel , the chairman of the Long Island Power Authority , said today . The project , the first in the nation to dismantle a licensed commercial nuclear reactor , cost several million dollars less than the $ 186 million projected . Mr. Kessel said the authority '' got away cheaply '' performing a task that would eventually confront operators of more than 100 commercial reactors now in operation . '' This is an historic day , not just for the people of Long Island , but for the country , '' he said at a news conference inside the former reactor building . The plant , proposed in the mid-1960 's , never went into commercial operation . Because of fears that safe evacuation of the surrounding area would be impossible in the event of an accident , the former owner , the Long Island Lighting Company , sold Shoreham to the state for $ 1 in 1992 in an agreement intended to block its operation . Mr. Kessel said removing the radioactive waste that was produced during testing required 353 truck shipments of more than 5 million pounds of waste to burial and reprocessing sites in South Carolina and Tennessee . The authority also shipped 560 irradiated fuel assemblies by barge from the plant , which is on Long Island Sound about 60

110151296

id	110151296
date	1991-03-17
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	822
headline	A Wrong Technology At a Wrong Site

It is unbelievable to me that our County Administration has spent $ 1.8 million to study a long-term land-based sludge-management system , required under the terms of a 1989 consent decree , only to come up with a plan that selects the wrong technology at the wrong site at the wrong time -LSB- '' County to Reasses a Plan to Burn Its Sludge , '' March 3 -RSB- . To select incineration over composting is environmentally unsound , expensive and inefficient . The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation 's hierarchy of preferred solid-waste management methods , designed to reduce dependency on land burial of wastes , ranks compostings above incineration in the state Solid Waste Management Plan . Incineration with recovery of energy from the solid waste is only to be used on solid waste that can not be recycled . This sludge , however , can be recycled . Further , there is no plan to recover any energy from this proposed incineration process and the proposed process will still need a landfill site for the disposal of residue ash . This proposal circumvents the goal , the spirit and the letter of the Solid Waste Management Plan . Westchester 's long-term land-based sludge management system should be redesigned as an in-vessel composting process , along the lines of New York City 's plan , with a '' fair share '' given to each community of origin . The Yonkers Joint Treatment Plant treats 65 percent of

110140361

id	110140361
date	1986-09-30
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	1032
headline	NUCLEAR PANEL CHECKING T.V.A. ON TENNESSEE REACTOR'S SAFETY

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is investigating the actions of top nuclear power officials of the Tennessee Valley Authority after concluding that one of them made '' false statements '' about the safety and readiness of one of its nuclear reactors , according to a commission memorandum . All five nuclear power reactors of the huge Government-owned utility have been shut down for 13 months to review a large number of construction flaws and problems with safety devices . On Wednesday , the investigating subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce will recall members of the panel 's enforcement staff to the third in a series of public hearings on what its chairman , Representative John D. Dingell , has called a '' regulatory breakdown '' at the commission . Last week , the panel obtained a July 28 memo from Harold R. Denton , the commission 's director of reactor regulation , to the agency 's office of investigation citing '' material false statements '' by the T.V.A. . A commission spokesman , Frank Ingram , confirmed Saturday that the Denton memo was a request for an inquiry into '' incorrect '' T.V.A. statements about the readiness of the Watts Bar Unit 1 , a new reactor 40 miles south of Knoxville , Tenn. . At issue was the readiness of the reactor vessel for insertion of uranium fuel in order to generate steam to produce electricity .

110128901

id	110128901
date	1983-05-22
medium	New York Times (leads)
length	402
headline	Pieces of a Plan For Indian Point Fall Into Place

Officials have been burning the midnight oil to keep the nuclear power flowing from Indian Point , and last week they seemed to be making progress . After meetings with bus companies , drivers ' unions and the operators of the reactors - Consolidated Edison and the New York Power Authority - Westchester County Executive Andrew P. O ' - Rourke announced an agreement on emergency planning . He said the unions would support a two-hour course in '' radiation emergency response procedures , '' the utilities , in addition to paying for the course and the time of the drivers taking it , would lease 1,000 buses and begin a $ 242,000 study of local roads , and Albany would furnish 1,000 dosimeters and a supply of potassium iodide , a drug that reduces the effects of radiation . None of this , of course , guarantees that 500 drivers would be available to transport those of the nearly 300,000 people living within 10 miles of the Buchanan complex who , in the event of an emergency , could n't get out by themselves , but Mr. O'Rourke said he was confident '' we 'll get the volunteers . '' Just in case , Dr. David Axelrod , the New York State Health Commissioner , suggested in a report to Governor Cuomo at week 's end that cadets or army troops from West Point be pressed into service . It was widely agreed that all of the Nuclear Regulatory