[net.politics] Silkwood anniversary

peterr@utcsrgv.UUCP (Peter Rowley) (11/13/84)

10 years ago today (Tuesday, Nov 13th), Karen Silkwood died, while enroute
to talk to a reporter about working conditions at the Kerr-McGee nuclear
fuel processing company.

myers@uwvax.UUCP (Jeff Myers) (11/16/84)

> 10 years ago today (Tuesday, Nov 13th), Karen Silkwood died, while enroute
> to talk to a reporter about working conditions at the Kerr-McGee nuclear
> fuel processing company.

And that reporter was none other than David Burnham of the New York Times,
who now writes mostly about computer privacy issues.  I encourage everyone
on the net to read his book "Rise of the Computer State".