Word: antinuclear
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...which he claimed that he could virtually balance the budget by 1988 by clamping a lid on most spending, including defense and entitlements, for a five-year budget savings of nearly $600 billion, while closing over $256 billion in tax loopholes. California Senator Alan Cranston found even some antinuclear activists slipping out of his fold, turned off in part by his advocacy of the B-1 bomber...
...Pope's antinuclear stance was pivotal to his message of the absolute value of human life. This principle led him to denounce abortion, to question research in armaments and human genetic engineering, and to intervene, unsuccessfully, in the executions of condemned men in Guatemala and Florida...
CARB spent 20 times more money in November's election than Mobilization for Survival, the organization sponsoring the antinuclear measure. Only three percent of the estimated $35,000 in proponents' contributions exceeded...
...Soviet walkout in Geneva had been virtually guaranteed 13 hours earlier in the West German capital of Bonn, where two days of tumultuous parliamentary debate had ended with a resounding affirmation of NATO's missile policy. While West German police struggled with antinuclear demonstrators in the streets outside, members of parliament voted 286 to 226 to accept a first shipment of nine Pershing II nuclear ballistic missiles on their soil. Within 24 hours of the decision, U.S. C-5 Galaxy transports had deposited the weapons at the Ramstein Air Base near Mannheim. From there, the Pershings were moved...
...short term, the two most likely effects of last week's events are that the number of missiles in Europe will grow substantially and that demonstrations against them will continue. West Germany's pacifists have already called for a huge antinuclear protest to take place on Dec. 12. But there was an important positive consequence: the oft-fragmented Atlantic Alliance had, contrary to many predictions, responded to its most stringent test in more than 25 years by affirming rather than weakening its resolve. ?By George Russell. Reported by Roland Flamini and Gary Lee/ Bonn and Strobe Talbott/Geneva...