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low-key, patient, attentive to your situation member firm with RELO complimentary nationwide home locatorsmember brokers in all major cities ED BENNETT 10102 N. Lamar, Austin 78753 PP4P1 JBGoodwin Company THE COMMODORE HOTEL On Capitol Hill Owned by Texans. Run by a Texan. 520 N. Capitol St., NW Washington, D.C. 20001 We’ll steak our reputation on our Ribeye. Many people say the Wharf’s Ribeye Steak is the finest around. A cut of choice grade corn-fed beef from the eye of the prime rib seasoned and broiled as you request it. Or how about Alaskan king crab? Teriyaki shrimp? Australian lobster? You’ll be glad to know there are no beefs about our seafood. That’s just a sampling of all the delicious entrees at the Wharf. All including a visit to the salad bar you’ve heard so many good things about. Come in and enjoy the fine food and service we’re known for. AUSTIN COLLEGE STATION SAN ANTONIO TEMPLE CORPUS CHRISTI VICTORIA PORT ARANSAS BROWNSVILLE HARLINGEN McALLEN TUCSON .. . 9001110 . . Center Stage presents George Luce’s -.woe … THE BELLE OF AMHERST ft… o.. …, Emily Dickinson portrayed by Christine Wallis . Elio. …too Opens Friday, March 23 thru April 8 Reservations 477-1012 0 .4.410 Thurs, Fri, Sat 8 p.m. / Sun Mat 2 p.m. / Gen Adm $4, Student $3 Group rates of 20 or more only $2.50 per person :I:: CENTER STAGE, so:: ..o ..s. Gaslight Theatre presents George Gershwin’s . Is ., “PORGY AND BESS” , so::: ..:, ow,. starring members of the Houston Grand Opera. .440 …111 Opening March 21 thru April 8 / Reservations 476-4536 :::: .440 Wed. & Thurs. 8 p.m. & Sun. Mat. 2 p.m. $6. Fri. & Sat. 8 p.m. $8. ..o . 44.0 Coming April 24 “CABARET” directed by Dr. Stephen Wyman I. 6E/ 50. o at: 01110 Group rates are available. Ammo “410 Sat. Children’s Matinee “THE PINEAPPLE PLAYERS” 000. .0o. o* March 24, March 31 & April 7 at 2 p.m. so.. …. .. …. …0 Gaslight Theatre, West Fourth & Lavaca Streets, Austin ‘lli .. committee that oversees the NRC: “Clearly the industry was soothing the public with the Rasmussen report. We have to go back three spaces and start over . .. to begin to sort out the tough questions. That would surely be the most prudent course on all the unsettled issues that have been obscured by self-serving reports from the partisans of nuclear energy use, but that way lies the possibility of a moratorium on reactor operationanathema to the industry. And the industry’s economic incentive to concern itself with these safety questions has been minimized by government fiat: liability for nuclear accidents has been limited by federal law since 1957. Under the terms of this law \(the clear accident cannot exceed $560 million, a sum that might cover only a small fraction of the damage claims for deaths, injuries and property destruction. \(A 1965 NRC study suggested that just the property loss liability stemming from a major reactor mishap could run anywhere from surers currently cover part of this amount; the federal government assumes the bulk of the burden itself. Consider what Price-Anderson implies about the true perception, by both the industry and its friends in government, of the economics and the safety hazards of nuclear technology. Enactment of this law was absolutely essential to the commercialization of nuclear power. Amid all the genuine scientific uncertainties, it creates an artificial certaintythat, if something goes wrong, the industry is not going to be held fully responsible for the consequences, and neither is the government. Herbert Denenberg, a former Pennsylvania insurance commissioner, has written vividly about the testimony his agency heard on this arrangement: “The engineer of one nuclear manufacturer claimed that the technology was perfectly safe. The lawyer of the same firm insisted on a limitation of liability as contained in the Price-Anderson Act. . . . The nuclear establishment seems to be talking out of both sides of its mouth at the same time.” Thus, the energy that has never been “too cheap to meter” has always been too risky to insure, and duplicity has been the only durable feature of the pronuclear argument on both points. This is the conclusion Light Water all but compels, though Bupp and Derian shrink from it, because it leaves little room for their hope that the nuclear technocrats can inspire renewed public confidence. However fervently the authors wish that the nuclear dream were merely deferred, the subtitle they chose is telling: the dissolution of the nuclear dream of cheap and safe energy is already history. What remains is the task of awakening the dreamers to the reality the rest of us already recognize. ::;;;;II: SUPPORT AUSTIN LIVE THEATRE 22 MARCH 30, 1979