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...thing about T. Boone Pickens: nobody ever faulted him for thinking small. "We did not come to town on a load of watermelons," declared the chairman of Mesa Petroleum Co. of Amarillo, Texas (1981 sales: $408 million) from his 39th-floor suite atop New York's Waldorf-Astoria hotel. Pickens, 54, had come to New York loaded not with watermelons but with money, $ 1 billion in bank credits to be exact. He intended to use the money to buy up a company nearly 20 times Mesa's size. His target: Cities Service Co. of Tulsa, the nation...
...year now, Roman Catholic nuns and priests have gathered each Friday at the Federal Building in Providence to protest U.S. policy on El Salvador. In conservative Amarillo, Texas, Bishop Leroy Matthiesen is urging workers to quit the Pantex nuclear-bomb plant, resulting in a United Way cutoff of a $61,000 annual grant to Catholic Family Services. In Seattle, Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen is risking prosecution by refusing, as an anti-nuclear protest, to pay half his income taxes. San Francisco Archbishop John Quinn is asking his hospitals to ignore a Defense Department plan to allocate beds because, he says...
...have spoken out against the arms race or in favor of a nuclear freeze, and the hierarchy's umbrella organization, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, plans to vote on a major statement about nuclear war at its annual meeting in November. Bishop Leroy Matthiesen of Amarillo, Texas, has even urged Catholics working at a nearby nuclear-weapons assembly plant to consider switching jobs, and has set up a $10,000 fund to help workers who quit the plant for moral reasons...
...assembly of nuclear weapons are bid out to private suppliers, as is the case with every other item in the U.S. defense arsenal. Final assembly takes place in a spread of low buildings, protected by guard dogs and a high cyclone fence, that range over several acres north of Amarillo, Texas. The heavily guarded facility is owned by the Department of Energy, but the day-to-day business of building warheads and bombs at the site is the responsibility of the little-known Kentucky-based engineering firm of Mason & Hanger-Silas Mason...
Activists are urging confrontation. The radical Evangelical magazine Sojourners calls for prayerful protests at all U.S. nuclear facilities. Seattle's Roman Catholic Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen suggests a tax boycott. In Amarillo, Texas, Bishop L.T. Matthiesen is asking employees to quit work at the nearby Pantex plant, which assembles nuclear bombs. Clergy in California and Connecticut have been prominent backers of legislative petitions endorsing a freeze of U.S. and Russian nuclear-weapon production. Says Pastor John Thursby of Lyme, Conn.: "God would not be pleased if we return his creation to him in ashes." Other local congregations are backing...