Word: anties
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of his Texas colleagues remember Yazdi as "pleasant, humanitarian and a good scientist." They were unaware of his political activities, which included helping to organize several anti-Shah Iranian student organizations in the U.S. From time to time he visited Khomeini, who was in exile in Iraq from 1964 until late 1978, when he was expelled and moved to France. Yazdi's wife and several of their six children still live in Houston. Last week his wife said that she would remain a U.S. citizen even if her husband does...
There is a new urgency, and a sense of responsibility to the anti-nuclear movement. Perhaps that is because the issues now seem to be resolving themselves into clearer and more fundamental choices. Some understood these choices long ago. As two distinguished scientists and humanitarians, Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russelt, put it earlier in the Nuclear...
...average nuclear reactor produces 400 to 500 pounds of plutonium a year. One pound, distributed evenly through the atmosphere, is enough to give every person on earth lung cancer for so goes the estimate of Dr. Helen Caldicott, author of Nuclear Madness and an anti-nuclear activist). One-millionth of a gram of plutonium constitutes a carcinogen dose. That's just one of the dangers when reactors operate "safely." Since at Three Mile Island, the public has learned that far more dangerous accidents will happen, and the anti-nuclear movement has been swelling...
...CANNOT rely on others to prevent our self-destruction. We must ourselves take responsibility for our survival. In the U.S. support for the anti-nuclear movement is coming from the campuses, from the old anti-war people, from the conservationists, and from just plain folks who are running scared. The Student Coalition Against Nukes Nationwide began in the fall of 1978 with four member schools. It now has 40 member schools, including Harvard. Boston Clamshell used to hold Wednesday orientation meetings at its headquarters; hundreds of would-be clams kept calling and dropping by and the Alliance...
Harvard first offered a post to Moroz, who has spent all but nine months of the past 14 years in Soviet prisons for anti-government activities, during his 20-week protest hunger strike in 1974, and repeated it yearly since then...