Word: anties
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anti-nuclear groups meanwhile plan to protest and lobby in an effort to prevent the operation of Seabrook. Concord'sSeacoast Clamshell, an anti-nuclear organization,plans to hold a candlelight vigil next month atthe gates of Seabrook to commemorate the Chernobylnuclear accident, said Clamshell member PaulGunter
...illogic of cutting off the contras as a reaction to the excesses of their Administration backers, State Department officials see no way that, in light of the Tower findings, Reagan can win the additional $105 million he is requesting for the cause. Some have already begun referring to the anti-Sandinista rebels in the past tense. Says one official long involved in the contra war: "We had been devising a strategy to somehow save this thing, but after this report, it's all over. We need to start thinking about evacuating the contras, figuring out what to do with them...
...some 140 political prisoners pardoned last month by Soviet Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the best known was Mathematician Iosif Begun, a 54-year-old refusenik. He was freed after serving 3 1/2 years of a seven-year term for anti-Soviet activity that consisted mainly of teaching Hebrew and campaigning for Jewish cultural rights. After being reunited with his family and friends on a Moscow train platform last week, Begun relaxed in his apartment and spoke with TIME Moscow Bureau Chief James O. Jackson of how he passed his time in prison. A compact man with cheerful blue eyes...
With much patience, and liberal does of what I believed at the time to be anti-psychotic drugs, I slowly began to turn the young man around. We took long walks in the park, read Emerson in the library, and discussed religion. The latter soon began to fascinate him; he would rap until deep in the night about God and salvation. In the end, I got sick of it and decided it was all a bunch of bull. Terry joined the Anglican Church...
Coors is no less odious a figure than his predecessors on the Conservative Club's circuit of speakers. His company is by most accounts a union-busting, contra-funding, anti-black, anti-gay brewery. Other audiences Coors has addressed in recent years, for instance, have been treated to such insights as the one he delivered to an audience of Black businessmen: "One of the best things the slave traders did for you was to drag your ancestors over here in chains...