Word: antinuclearism
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...25th anniversary of its publication. Media announcements have recalled the public theatrics of the poet, an ostentatious non-comformist, a self-described "Hebraic Melvillean bardic breath." He drew together the strident Beat Generation of the 1950s, led the flower children of the 1960s into Eastern religions, hymned the antinuclear movement of the 1970s. Throughout, he sustained his vernacular yet visionary voice-marked, said one admiring fellow poet, by a "note of hysteria that hit the taste of the young...
Brezhnev, who in previous weeks had artfully presented the Soviet Union as the superpower genuinely interested in peace, was expected by some to use the banquet at the Bonn summit to present a new idea to encourage the antinuclear weapon movement that has mobilized millions of Western Europeans in opposition to the deployment of U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles. Holding the sheaf of white pages far from his body so that he could read the large-type Cyrillic characters without his eyeglasses, Brezhnev at first seemed to confirm his audience's suspicions by announcing in his heavy, measured...
...cover story, checked by World Head Reporter-Researcher Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, was written by Associate Editor Henry Muller. As TIME'S European economics correspondent based in Brussels, then as Paris bureau chief for four years until last summer, Muller watched the antinuclear movement take root and grow in The Netherlands...
...than 30% of the country's electric power, the highest percentage in the world. During last spring's presidential campaign, Socialist Candidate François Mitterrand dismissed nuclear power as "costly and uncertain" and promised to delay nine proposed plants. But as President, Mitterrand has curbed his antinuclear rhetoric and now plans to halt only three of the plants. Reason: his government is counting on the energy provided by nuclear reactors to help fuel an ambitious program of economic revival...
...reached a point where the confrontation of the superpowers in Europe could threaten the survival of the whole continent, especially the survival of West Germany." An even more pessimistic view was expressed by Volkmar Deile, a leader of the Action for Reconciliation, an organization linked to many Protestant church antinuclear groups. Said Deile: "There is an increasing feeling in Germany that talking to the superpowers about disarmament is like trying to persuade drug dealers to stop deliveries of dope. The feeling is that they are hooked on armaments...