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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
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Subject: Re: Morton-Thiokol Engineering Claims
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Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 15:05:55 EST
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> Note that the engineer does not need to be publicly identified; newspapers
> and television stations will happily accept any information of this type
> "without attribution".  Moreover, such organizations will zealously try to
> prevent release of such information under First Amendment principles.

Hmmmm.  Here in the Phoenix area, 30 managers working at the Palo Verde
Nuclear Power Plant are being forced by their employer to take polygraph
tests to determine which one gave an anonymous tip to the local newsrag.
The paper isn't revealing its sources, but the tipster is gonna get axed
anyway (anyone who refuses the test is automatically fired).  And maybe
some innocent folks as well.

The Arizona Corporation Commission (which regulates our utilities) has
indicated that the information which was leaked should have been public
knowledge, should definitely have been provided to the ACC, and was
instead covered up.  The ACC is grateful to the "squealer", but its
hands are tied when it comes to protecting the guy's job.
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Doug Pardee -- CalComp -- {elrond,savax,seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!terak!doug