Word: antinuclear
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After a rush of praise, his antinuclear book draws skepticism
Exactly that sweeping solution-and a worldwide government of unspecified political complexion to carry it out-is the immodest proposal of the antinuclear movement's rallying point, Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth. The book first appeared as three articles in The New Yorker and met wide acclaim among opinion leaders. Walter Cronkite said it "may be one of the most important works of recent years." Washington Post Columnist Mary McGrory said that the book was "working its way into the national psyche." Even journalists who disagreed with Schell's call for disarmament, like Columnist...
...have to do is convince people that Reagan is serious about not getting us into war." Aides also claim that polls show the nuclear-freeze movement has not caught on as widely as they feared. But that assessment will receive a test from April 18 to 25, when antinuclear activists launch Ground Zero Week, a nationwide campaign of seminars, lectures, teach-ins and marches, pointing up the horrors of nuclear...
From its beginnings, the peace movement that drew more than 2 million antinuclear demonstrators into the streets of Western Europe last fall has been an amorphous alliance. Though it includes Communists, the movement has consistently denied that it is Communist controlled. But being vocally opposed to the deployment of new U.S. built intermediate-range nuclear missiles, the movement was an easy target for Moscow-inspired attempts to convince Western Europeans that the U.S., not the Soviet Union, was fueling the arms race. Last week West Germany's tiny, pro-Moscow Communist Party, which regularly polls only about...
...rising antinuclear sentiment has contributed to an erosion of support for the Administration's proposed military buildup, which is already in trouble because of worries over huge budget deficits. Last week the Armed Services Committee voted to eliminate $2.1 billion in funds for deploying the first 40 MX intercontinental missiles. The Administration, which has still not decided how to base these new weapons, wanted to house them temporarily in existing Minuteman silos. Critics charged that this ad hoc system would make them vulnerable to a Soviet strike. The committee made $1.1 billion more in cuts before sending the fiscal...