Word: antinuclear
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...same time, Correspondent Mary Cronin was chronicling Pope John Paul II's historic visit to Britain. From Bonn, which will handle the last leg of the presidential tour, Bureau Chief Roland Flamini was trying to anticipate the possible diplomatic repercussions of planned demonstrations by the large West German antinuclear movement. Correspondent Diane L. Coutu was already in West Berlin laying the reportorial groundwork for President Reagan's visit to that symbolic city...
...print," the President shot back. But then he added: "I'm kidding. I think we'll be meeting." Reagan's flippant remark, while inappropriate, reflected optimism within the White House that the President's arms-control speech, and Moscow's answer, will defuse domestic antinuclear sentiment and help smooth the way for his forthcoming trip to Western Europe...
...bishops on nuclear arms and El Salvador. I believe these are political questions best left to the President and Congress to resolve. As a taxpayer, I am also interested in the case of Archbishop Hunthausen, who is refusing to pay half his income taxes as an antinuclear protest. I am as strongly opposed to other things my Government is doing as the archbishop is to nuclear arms. Yet I will continue to pay all my taxes for the other wonderful benefits my country gives...
...White House hopes that the speech, which chastised the Soviets for mischief making around the globe, will also ease some of the pressure that Reagan has been feeling from both the West European antinuclear movement and domestic advocates of an arms freeze. However, the proposal is so ambitious-and so favorable to the U.S.-that it is likely to touch off a new round of debate about the feasibility, and even the sincerity, of Administration arms-control policy. At the same time, the far right is likely to criticize Reagan for proposing any diplomacy at all with the Soviets...
...growing number of commentators are now skeptical. In the May issue of Harper's, Editor Michael Kinsley writes: "Schell's . . . pretentious . . . essay well illustrates the confusion of the antinuclear movement." The heart of Kinsley's argument is that Schell too readily subordinates "liberty," "national sovereignty" and other values to "survival," because the only possible outcomes he sees to nuclear confrontation are annihilation or peace at any price. Contends Kinsley: "To Schell, apparently, all considerations apart from the danger of nuclear war are mere distractions...