Word: antinuclear
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Public agonizing over the role of covert activity does not, of course, constrain the Soviet Union. There is evidence linking the Soviets to terrorist groups such as Italy's Red Brigades and West Germany's Baader-Meinhof gang, as well as to elements of the antinuclear movement in Western Europe. America's Western allies, including such sturdy democracies as France and Britain, seem able to mount covert operations when necessary. "It would be illogical for us to discuss our covert operations in full view of the rest of the world," says a former French counter-intelligence chief...
...past few years about the CIA's dirty work has shown that covert projects, even if successful, can result in resentment of U.S. influence. The absurd lengths to which it can be stretched were revealed last week in the West German parliament when members of the antinuclear Green Party charged that the U.S. was responsible for the death of a West German doctor who was executed by contras in Nicaragua two weeks ago. Party Leader Petra Kelly raised a banner in front of the speaker's podium reading: SUPPORTING THE U.S.A. MEANS TO BE IMPLICATED IN THE DEATH...
...most persistent conservative was Archbishop Philip Hannan of New Orleans, a chaplain with the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II. As the antinuclear wave rolled on, Hannan lectured his fellow bishops: "I don't think you know what you're talking about at all, not having been in war. You're just inviting the enemy in if you withdraw those nuclear weapons we have...
Leading the fight was the Green Party, a loose amalgam of environmentalists and antinuclear militants, which charged that the Volkszählung, or people count, amounted to an invasion of privacy. (The questionnaire asks about everything from monthly rent to religious beliefs.) Last week an eight-judge federal court decided that there was merit to the argument and ordered the census postponed...
...characteristically finds fault with the growing antinuclear movement, claiming it is dominated by pacifists: "It is one thing to stop nuclear war. It is another thing to stop war altogether. I think we don't have enough small wars. I was immensely impressed by the war in the Falklands." He suggests that countries stuck in irreconcilable disputes "rent the Falklands and fight their battles there." Mailer is asked about homosexuality, another subject on which he has been illiberally truculent: "My feeling is, and you're all going to boo at this, homosexuals want to become heterosexual...