Word: antinuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Sir Leslie Arthur ("Dick") Plummer, 61, British Labor Party M.P. since 1951 and a lifelong socialist who for 17 years pursued a career as a top business-side executive for Lord Beaverbrook's newspapers, then left in 1948 to enter politics and become an antinuclear, anti-Common Market leader of the Labor wing that recently made Harold Wilson party chief; of a stroke; in Manhattan. "I've done well under the capitalist system," he once said, "but I loathe all it represents...
...Park dominated by an eloquent 32-ft. statue of a squatting figure that eternally lifts one arm to the sky, extends the other in forgiveness. Unlike Hiroshima, which is only 430 miles from Tokyo, Nagasaki takes about 24 hours to reach by train, and has never been invaded by antinuclear demonstrators. By last week, while Hiroshima staged noisy ban-the-Bomb rallies, Nagasaki had not witnessed a single demonstration against U.S. nuclear tests over Christmas Island. Explains Hiroshi Wakiyama, a businessman who in 1960 quit as chairman of Nagasaki's small chapter of Gensuikyo, Japan's antinuclear council...