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The Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant has had its low-power testing permit rescinded because of a mix-up in which engineers used the earthquake-bracing blueprints for Unit One on Unit Two and vice versa .... Voters in Washington state and Austin, Texas have come out firmly antinuclear in two elections .... An appeals court in California has ruled that states have wide powers to control (and perhaps even exclude) nuclear power within their borders .... The state of Tennessee—over the objections of the Tennessee Valley Authority—has passed out a supply of iodine tablets to 7,100 households within five miles of TVA's Sequoyah nuclear power plant, to help residents withstand the effects of radiation in the event of an accident.

Finally, we'd like to present a special Spiro Agnew award to Andrew V. Bailey, an official of the U.S. Geological Survey, who—back in 1976—criticized the use of "inflammatory words such as disturbed, devastated, defiled, ravaged, gouged, scarred, and destroyed .... These," he said, "are words used by the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, environmentalists, homosexuals, ecologists, and other ideological eunuchs ...." We're proud to be included.

EDITOR'S NOTE:Friends of the Earth has just brought out Progress As If Survival Mattered ($14.95). This revised and expanded "handbook for a conserver society" outlines alternatives to the current government's positions on land policy, defense, energy, education, and other issues.

Another valuable FOE resource is The New Environmental Handbook ($5.95), which is now in its second printing. Both volumes are available from Mother's Bookshelf (P .O, Box 70, Hendersonville, North Carolina 28791) for the stated prices plus 95¢ shipping and handling.

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