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| Issue date: | 08/15/1979 |
| From: | Galen Smith NAVY, DEPT. OF |
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. @ OFFICE OF THE A DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY W ASHINGTON. D.C.
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Director Office of Administration, Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1717 H Street, NW Washi p'on, DC 20555
Dear Sir:
The attached correspondence from Mrs. Ilse Ahlers, 21 Crestview Hill Road, Livingston, NJ 07039, is forwarded as a matter pertaining to your office.
Sincerely, br.
i Inclosure GRADY A.
SMITH Letter with news clippings Major, GS
+ Chief, Personnel and Training Support Division 7010240'.5/D
Mrs. Ilse Ahlers 21 Creswiew Hill Road Livingston, New Jersey 07039 July 27th 1979.
Concerning:
Radiation around "Nuklear Plants ",
I ao believe, if t his Article from a Cgerman :lerspaper should be printed in the Arias around any Nuklear Plant or even every were. I Iound it very interes-ting, th t we are receiving from mother Nature aluoct :.. ore than around a nuclear Plant.
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rn ckem itta Bausch Goes Swimming, And So egvFvfg The small love stones do not work PDo we was the tronic yet, nor does the mam one between jo utle the w i e
Wuppertal ballet company sugpstod for f
f Ann f.ndicott and a real hippopotamus.
I The hippo was not available for th Frau Bausch's latest work tons be.
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premiere but the one made by H Dieter Knebel was so bnmently marked The cornpany's lugubnous title con' that a real hippopotamus could on1y a v
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be a dmppomtmg g g of Ptna Bausch's Macbeth paraphrase ye t
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.jo Ann gets into the pool with the Takes Her By the Hand, premiered in
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smooth, dry, dancing surface. The floor Finally, they do manage the return to is wet. shppery and treacherous. The set g4 hfe, quite compulsively and without a designer has here radically put into prac.
tice what he merely hmted at in the g-falso note. After exhaustion from the taring running backwards and forwards Macbeth production wtth a kind of rnost at the front of the stage.
through the splashing water, after sad.
House is ankle.dcep in preheated water l
ness at the death of Elvis Presley, the The enure stage of the Barmen Opers company seek words for things that
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nna.. d.* b=4 vi the atas* th*', ts a clouds,the gu depression similar to a swimming pool They start dancing rock and roll and in wtuch one can swirn and bathe.
Jo Ann Endicott sn Pine Baur#s new banet Anar (No' t'm wm finady we find them lying on the floor Near the water surface, which when v
The company. swinging their legs, aaleep, some even in pairs, wet through ut mo ns looks like black paint and The scene darkens, acoustically and frighten the others o i the stage. Most of as so many times before, sends flidering reflexes of hght over the dark nus, are mirrors and snake-up optically. The music which throughout the exaltations son e of the dancers This is of course not dancing or baf.
the evening has been constantly inter-work themselves up into end with them let;indeed it can hardly even be catego.
tables-Soft ard gentle ku niumic by GerrY rupted by laughter and cnes, conversa. famng in the water. The fairy tales are nsed as dance theatre. But as theatre of Mullig3n ts heard the company, stdl tions between the actors and the recount.
all about huntmg and dying.
pictures it is n ote fascinating than Just Mf in metitious) rivate attitudes, is ing of jokes and f airy tales changes, Pma Bausch, who has alwavs consi. about anythms to be seen in the theatre gettet rem) for formance.
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It has often been said that Bausch is
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dered livirts and livmg together hard, is, ouenced by Robert WUson, but her
'"o" trAsmo thtr%ts or e,un in Anas.
m g the pedormance. IfM usii.,
she outclanes him. Compared with g
someone comul, wt hast, obch is pe>
.Ths smes the dancert n But she wants to distract us from its flausch's Arias. Wilson's Death Destrue.
come part f
desolation. At the same time ste hopes, tion ind Detroit, now showing at the all relatd to the la* that ]s't fectly in pu asil is. singing at ene pant aftr another leave with and by her art to conaxt death Berbs Schaubchne, is not only inhuman d
same time mod *udly than beautifully-and achieve a httle bit of irrnoetal,ty. but also untmagmattve, mechanical thea.
dance frmations in canca,.,k, "[h There someonOractises punches. Inone or wo artntrary and Beneath her tears she is trymg D laugh.
Pr,s,.ups. At the lochen Schm/dt front, someone d8 dances trown in, have a ternfym f-This is why Anas is darker trut less g%, o,.%,,
t ack, someone moves hke a snake. man.
ra cuni a.18 ans, ims lect.
despondent than her previous work. The 5.tting in the wat.t. a girl recites part of the Cretchen rnonolosue from Goethe's l'aust: "My peace is gone, my West Berh,n theatre festival plaw/ to full houses)
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a biology book.
A tan snan tenderly carries a sinagg he teenth Berlin Th' fu ' l It was 3 d to see the theatres sold in the Bremen version by Ernst woman across the stags. The M 4M j, e, under way and h o rwme out naht to the very tast seat. that str. Wendt Creon is a bald, whinmg gnn.
kissing. But her feet reach only as far as 8
pe les sm extra ad hoc per. nmg cynic, almost the classical equiva.
cisive )and a number of comD8"2 i "nanca wynmr possible and that in lent of vdage judge Adam in Kleist's his knees, A hit by the Cornedbo Harmonists invited.
the nights of this caploding early sum. krbrocheirJKrug.
bursts in and ser ds the co* 98"7 The Dn Theatre Festival, held in mer the visitors spent hours sittmg in Chnstof Nel's Frankfurt versiori, movins off into formattons. They run around on the Kurf0rstendamm discuss. n the other hand, Creon is a rioble y or diagonally, so that the water splashes
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little radiation released into the atmos.
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f is cadusively the d a phyucal unit npresentmg a very about ten times more effectie than heta tra radiation per year, foolhardy, no-holds.barnd technological rays in a simdar dosage.
So a riuclear power stanon that sud.
radiation small' ammartt of energy indeed.or instance, a body te subjected to To simphfy matters the n.sgo is denly exposes local reudents to 100 Nuclear hesion and radioactivity are rg id of radsation, its temperature wdl multiplied by a biological e..
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felt to be a violation of nature.They are,has it, temptmg provs.
se by less than a hundred nou, based on ernptrical fmdmgs. ;ae result result of sn accident is most unkkely to o
cause an overall radiation level that of a degree centigrade.
is the rem, a measure of radistron (the i is no guide to W dag a W damage potential that can be spphed to more than a fraction of rumour evest san al kinds of radiation.
occurnng in many parts of they world.
Yet radtation, even lon siris dence.
use kn the hymg organaam mind Cntical situations only occur when Rem is an acronym standmg for em e awk b kind that can prove darige ing n the can ca radiation reathes short term levels eH and as the mattet), is the most natura the kasid of radwtion involved.
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world' has bved with u measufed in terms of dosage mv9tphed The average person is expaied to 120 dents have shown.
which initial ms Afan unce the begmms e and out.
mill rem of natural radiation per year, This is the level at e
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functw temperature and denuty athch plas dir'clor at Garchir g, has th#s to say-ma can be igmted win be i le,bu o sector ( scietitific and techno.
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staggering. under the worst-g.g {
energy; fiscal; and ernotional ]* -
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throa y Contributmg to our frightemng-gas ennis_ is a financial ensis. to buildJJapanese, industry to a 'and giving thent a goodisiakmg. ' y wtisch threatens to make the U.S.
reminding them we have c) pended M dollar equal m value to a week +1d. point where; though it lost a war it-started.; Japam'certainl W
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peace. g' e *MtlY notiAn ' we.? haries of blondbaths in,thaure
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$2f % bilhon more. m goods from : shouldmot; dwell otrPearl Harbor.
forign ecountries' than, we sold, and heaven knowsoJimmy Carter nch Mexlee thal +weghave propped A
' ns econorey hke a rickeiy fenced them giving.us a4 senous trade certainly didn't when he warmly t
i Of th figure 512.5 t$illion went lt o"hito i t month, oneY[u i citt nasrnin r
I into the pockets of the Japanese thmk that in matters of trade. the their ow'n ' country, to come across Man fnends of my father's Japanese would thmk twice about Lne border to earn a better hymg
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age w o were yt places hke' financiallystabbmg this country in..The first chance.they get to pay Saipan. Guam. Borneo and New thei back -
Gumea could never quite, grasp One person. in particu[arg 'us back;; they throw in their lotwith the stran e almat le6ung -
. flood,this countryd and put.ttfe gas gun,to;oupheads feels Japanese go it'seems oftllttle sigmficance to e undercuttm$ our40wn guods and Venesuelans,that Amencan tech. '
servicest aoding.to our unempley.
nnlogy cut their 'citiesfoutrof(the<
menblines-and rutamg our-own industryl' viability ' is Repubhcan. Jungle and launched the entire sugi,
presidential candidate John Con-ar and oil industry They too seem to get a greasy satisf action out of
- nally, Big John is hoppmg rnad that throwmg their tot in with the OPEC countnes in trymg to brmg the Japanese are getting rich from us to our knees American consumers at the same time as they torpedo our own in-Well, perhaps at's about time dustnal growth-someone started to take a long.
".They refuse to buy our beef. hard look at this situation, some.
they refuse to buy our grain, they one like John Connally. All these ref use to buy our citrus. ' he points stab in-the+ack nations should out "I'm for free marketing, but read. mark and mwardly digest a also fair trading.
smgle fact.
" And I think someone should be The U.S can be totally self-sufficient if pushed to the ex-tellmg them unless they are pre-treme. we could seal r,ur shores pared to buy Amencan pnts m exchange. they can sit m their and exist mdependent of any Toyotes on the docks of Yokohama banana repubhc or any sand dune watching their own television of a country that threatens, us with I
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almighty black gold.
Thank God someone4 has We have enough food.
r in-I emerged with enough old-fash-stance, to' feed three ti the toned horse sense to get to the population of the U Se t is heart of why our dollars is shrink-somethmg the Middle Eas. Mext.
mg to the size of a Japanese doll. co and even Venezuela do not have Perhaps if some of our hly. and the same goes for the Soviet.
hvered leaders adopted the same Umon. Europe and Japan.
attitude we would not be grovel-And then. If they forget that.
mg on our knees at the mercy of a someone should whisper gently in bunch of gas-happy gangsters in their ears that we have still got a the Middle East. Mexico and Vene-heck of a lot of tough Mannes left i ruela. N
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- making up a successful relay team before," sabd Artra The antonishing talents of the girls. who ran the relay together for i
breding the record, have 1.anded their high schel, San Gorgonio. so-Their story began when Ins Angeles coach Frtrd Jones was traitur her sister, and Jones realized that she also had great potential "At that pmnt we derided to get all four girls Lt>gether. and see how togather they went like a rocket However, the Howard family
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