NUCLEAR NOTES

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Bravo, General Electric! The company withdrew its sponsorship of a Barbara Walters show interviewing Jane ("Don't knock communism if you haven't tried it") Fonda on her latest anti-nuclear smear, "The China Syndrome." Such obvious action of self-defense is becoming extremely rare in the servile world of large corporations whose policy is "Please kick us harder." But if you own a single share of stock in one of them, write Stockholders for World Freedom, 4623 San Feliciano Dr., Woodland Hills, CA 91364, for very effective advice on how you can help change their policies.

Tom Brokaw's show, too, is with it: He sat in rapt attention as Mrs Caldicott spewed forth her vicious insinuations; but when interviewing the AIF's Carl Walske, whom he had to invite later as a token of balance, he acted as the bullying prosecutor who tries not to let the witness get a word in edgewise. Brokaw is, of course, eminently familiar with this tactic from the Watergate lynchings which launched him on his present rewarding career. ( Very rewarding: He recently got a $350,000 SBA loan to buy a radio station, perhaps as a member of a minority which ekes out a living on $500,000 a year.)