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RIOT RESEARCH A NEW WEAPON for 'scrambling' brain circuit* hasbindawlop*d for riot control m igun is a high powwd,
"The checking and searching of youthful, athletic West Indian youths wearing short jeans, teeshirts and multi-coloured t m - c o ~ type hats who ho w r around pedestrian precincts, walkways and subways in city centres will detect outstanding handbag snatches and whet has become commonly known as 'street mugging'. . . that is tha sort of prejudice and discrimination we want from police officers."
oped for lasers. According to Slate Research Bulletin the weapon is a more sophisticated version of the 'photic driver', and its effects ere to induce giddiness, nausea, and a blinding headache "similar to a severe hangover" lasting for about five minutes. The person 'shot' by the gun can then be easily apprehended. But little is known about the long term effects of weapons like these. If you want to carry out your own experiments with the SPG asguinea-pigs, the "Light Shield" is made by Security Equipment Suppliesand costs
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RTZ IN THROUGHOUT its r i u t o notoriety, RTZ has claimed it merely operates unctar the laws of oountrla wber it mims, and is powwim to ¥tt *I Thin, it.i s "bound" to u n mimrant labour . . -labour in South ~frlct,-exploit i t o h Aboriginal tend in Australia, and mat the immoral occupation of Namibia. Now, startling evidence is coming to light that RTZ is pressuring a national government to alter a major piece of legislation, In its favour. The government is that of Panama: the legislation - a labour code which guarantee* minimum wages and would appear to give some protection to trade unions. According t o the Latin America Commodities Report (August), a "favourable response" from the government could 'remove the final obstacle to QTZ's participation in the Cerro Colorado copper project." The project is, of course, a major threat to the largest indigenous nation of Panama, the Guaymi. And failure to control
FAST NOTHING MUST INTERFERE WITH FAST BREEDER REACTOR POLICY. That is thm sat determination of the Governmont and it was revwled, almost by chance, by thm new Chief Scientist to the Oapartm*nt of Energy, Or Anthony C h i l l i He took the chair at a meeting on fusion energy held in the Royal Society of Arts and addressed by Or R S Pease, director of the Culham Laboratory where the Atomic Energy Authority is trying to find what it regards as an 'alternative' to nuclear power. Basically, it is the peaceful equivalent of the transition from the 'A' bomb to the 'H' bomb - in theory, if a way can be found to contain a temperature of about 20 million degrees Centigrade, fusion could create a man-made sun One might think that Dr Challis would welcome any such prospect. But at the meeting his was to insist to primary or fusion energy would not h l à § b l'before the middle of the next century' end so 'the step of being able to miss out developing and using the F a t Breeder probably is not open t o us.' The unfortunate Dr Pease tried (politely, because he was arguing with his boa) to refute this. 'It would be wrong for me to try to persuade anybody to take account of fusion in making investment decisions now,' ha l i d caufi~sly. But he added: 'As to the next century, I think we can do batter because we must find out at an marlier stage whether f u l o n will work. By expanding relatively modestly on the development of fusion currently, we spend about a tenth of what we are ipendmg on fission w could make the more r@d p r o g r ~ needadto answer, by the end of the century, the qwstion of whether or not fusion will work,' The merits, and the possibility, 3f achieving fusion energy can be discussed endlessly; what is significant is the (peed with which Or Challis rushed to defend the Fast Breeder Reactor against any Èssibilit that it might not be leaded. This also helps to explain uhv the Government has decided l o t to invest in a North Sea gas pipeline: anything which detracn from its argument that we must lave an FBR is regarded with luspicion.
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