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...liberals, the platform advocates a ban on construction of nuclear power plants until work begins on a permanent site for the disposal of atomic wastes. It also calls for ratification of the SALT II treaty, with some "supplementary measures" to be proposed to Moscow that, Anderson hopes, would allay some Senators' doubts that the Soviets' observance of the treaty can be verified...
...commitment to join the European Economic Community and greater personal freedom for all Spaniards. Groused Communist Leader Santiago Carrillo: "This is not a program of the left." He was correct. In one stroke, González had proposed to sweep Spain's leftist ideology into the past and allay conservative fears of a renewed bloody confrontation with the Socialists. Editorialized Spain's leading news paper, El Pais: "This is the speech of a candidate for Premier...
Such news is comforting, but fails to allay the fears of those who daily read reports of crime--which this year included rapes at the Business School, attacks on students in Lowell House, and the assault of a gay student at Tommy's Lunch...
...wonder, then, that registration--and the actual draft it makes possible--helps allay the voters' fear of weakness, and spreads a halo of potency around the same armed forces we've had for almost a decade. The symbol Carter invoked in his State of the Union speech can mesmerize Americans easily enough. But it will not show the Soviet Union determination or anything else unless it represents a substantial military advantage. It will have to be as handy a weapon in whatever struggle Carter anticipates with Russia as it's been in the battles in Iowa and New Hampshire...
...News in June 1977. (He remains president of ABC Sports and is executive producer of the Lake Placid Winter Olympics.) Journalists feared that he would bring game-show hype to the evening news, as described so chillingly in Paddy Chayefsky's 1976 movie Network. Arledge did little to allay those suspicions when, shortly after taking over, he devoted 19 minutes of one 22½-minute nightly newscast to a lurid account of the capture of an accused killer, the so-called...