Word: antinuclear
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That this activism has been and continues to be her life's work seems clear. A member of the Trotskyite Worker's Revolutionary Party, Redgrave has proven fanatically devoted to a number of causes, among them American withdrawal from Vietnam, and the antinuclear movement. She ran for British parliament unsuccessfully in 1979, and made and distributed two propaganda films for the PLO under that group's sponsorship. She has called repeatedly for the eradication of the state of Israel; in one of the PLO films she appeals holding a machine gun above her head while dancing with PLO members...
...Antinuclear advocates win Nobel honors for peace...
Myrdal's efforts have made her a darling of antinuclear circles. In 1980 she received the inaugural Albert Einstein Peace Prize in New York City, an award presented by former U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Last year Norwegian pacifist organizations raised funds to give her a special People's Peace Prize to protest her having been overlooked by the Nobel Committee. Says Myrdal of her 1982 Nobel award: "The prize money will come in handy to support the peace campaign...
...more severely by, say, a poisoning of the air or, for that matter, a nuclear war; by anything for which there are no protective mechanisms in place. At that high level of danger it would most likely be every man for himself. One of the undercurrent impulses of the antinuclear movement, in fact, may be the collective acknowledgment that the world does not work very well with every man for himself. It is precisely that feeling which creates the links among the pillmakers, sellers, testers and users in the first place, a sense that life only progresses and avoids hysteria...
...loose confederation built around environmentalist groups, the Greens include organizations that are vociferously opposed to all forms of atomic power in West Germany and to the presence of U.S. nuclear warheads on local soil. The Greens fear that Zimmermann's appointment presages a crackdown on the massive antinuclear demonstrations that have blossomed across the country in the past year. Green Spokesman Lucas Beckmann last week called Zimmermann's appointment "a scandal...