Word: antinuclearism
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...growing awareness and concern among Americans about the threat of nuclear holocaust. He was assisted by Reporter-Researcher Eileen Chiu, while Brigid O'Hara-Forster and JoAnn Lum worked with Talbott. Presiding over the entire package was National Editor John T. Elson, who was struck by the antinuclear movement's broad base. "The early opposition to the Viet Nam War," he says, "was by political radicals, and only later became a popular movement. Today's antinuclear leaders include Roman Catholic archbishops and Harvard law professors." Adds Elson: "TIME's correspondents turned up local initiatives all over...
...fact, nudging Washington was the point of the vote. With an almost quaint, civics-class formality, the antinuclear proposition called on the state legislature to pass a resolution directing Vermont's three-man congressional delegation to urge President Reagan to propose a mutual nuclear arms freeze with the Soviet Union. On Friday in the Vermont state legislature, the house passed the resolution, 103 to 26. Similar measures have been approved by six other states, and town meetings in Maine and New Hampshire are about to address the issue. In the Senate this week, Democrat Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts...
While the imposition of martial law in Poland has been resoundingly denounced by many leading Eurocommunists, the crackdown has failed to elicit the same kind of emotional response from Europe's pacifists. Accustomed to portraying the U.S. as the chief threat to world peace, leaders of the antinuclear crusade have been confounded by General Wojciech Jaruzelski's move against the Polish workers that had evidently been ordered by Moscow. In all of Europe, only a few thousand have demonstrated against Poland's imposition of martial law, although more than 2 million people had turned out for anti...
...West Germany, the key country in the antinuclear movement, the activists tended to approve of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's initial lukewarm reaction to Jaruzelski's crackdown. Typical was the attitude of Erhard Eppler, a member of the national executive committee of Schmidt's Social Democratic Party and a foe of the nuclear arms race. "For the most part, the peace movement was just as disgusted with what happened in Poland as anyone else," Eppler told TIME Senior Correspondent William Rademaekers. "The events were a shock, but the shock was overshadowed by the very emotional reaction...
...Pope is far from alone among church leaders. Lutheran, Calvinist and Roman Catholic clergy were among the early organizers of Europe's widespread antinuclear movement. In the U.S. a growing number of pastors and prelates are taking up the chant. The movement is not limited to predictable leftist or pacifist church circles; it has entered the religious mainstream. This month the 37 regional executives of the American Baptist Churches called the very existence of nuclear weapons, much less willingness to use them, "a direct affront to our Christian beliefs." The bishops of the United Methodist Church proclaimed in November...