Word: antinuclear
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...bishops' consensus, grumbling persisted. Bishop Michael Kenny of Juneau was disappointed that the statement did not confront the perception of "injustice" in the case. While conceding that "there really was little this group could do," Bishop Leroy Matthiesen of Amarillo, Texas, an ally of Hunthausen's in the antinuclear cause, noted that the long debate would surely send a warning to Rome through Laghi, who calmly observed the proceedings...
...time when U.S. interests in the region are taking a beating. The collapse of the ANZUS treaty in August, after New Zealand's refusal to permit any nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed ships in its waters, was the most serious blow to any U.S. alliance in 20 years. Antinuclear activism, spurred in part by continued French nuclear testing in Mururoa, has spread through the South Pacific. According to Harry Gelman, a political analyst at the Rand Corp., the Soviets hope to benefit "by identifying the United States in Asian eyes with the nuclear danger...
Nonetheless, much of Western Europe's press and expert opinion appeared to be impressed that the superpower leaders were at last talking seriously about deep slashes in nuclear arms. Even the antinuclear European left generally declined to indulge in Reagan bashing. In the Netherlands, the Inter-Church Peace Council deplored a "historic chance that was missed," but chastised the Soviets for linking reductions in intermediate-range nuclear weapons to restrictions...
Much of Kinnock's success has come despite a bold -- and, for Britain, potentially dangerous -- policy on national defense. Labor delegates last week overwhelmingly reaffirmed the party's commitment to abandon Britain's independent nuclear deterrent and close down all six U.S. nuclear bases in the country. That antinuclear posture has helped Kinnock unite his party, but he is gambling that it will not alienate mainstream voters and cost Labor the election, as it was largely responsible for doing in 1983. If a Labor government under Kinnock carries out that policy, the blow to the alliance would be greater than...
Pentagon officials privately fear that a Labor government with a policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament could encourage the return to power of West Germany's left-of-center Social Democrats and give a boost to the antinuclear movement throughout northern Europe...