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Judge Warren agreed with the Government's contention-outlined in a blizzard of affidavits from atomic experts and Cabinet Secretaries Cyrus Vance (State), Harold Brown (Defense) and James Schlesinger (Energy)-that the article would irreparably damage the security interests of the U.S. While conceding the story probably did not "provide a 'do-it-yourself' guide for the hydrogen bomb," Warren found that it contained vital concepts restricted under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. (Significantly, the Government could invoke no such statutory authority when it tried unsuccessfully to block publication of the Pentagon papers...
...your article "The Deluge of Disastermania" [March 5] you grouped Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth with Hollywood trash like Earthquake and Blizzard. Lindsey's book is based on Bible prophecy. Armageddon will not be a disaster for those who believe in Jesus Christ. The disaster is your article...
...pressure from women. Legislatures won't do the job on their own," says Bet ty Gittes, attorney and member of the Massachusetts commission to revise state laws. "The ERA is not a self-executing law, it's a constant fight." ERA states have not, however, experienced the blizzard of law suits that some ERA opponents feared...
...circulate these days in numbers that are too great to count, let alone mention. These products of the booming feel-good industry invariably try to evoke happiness, but they seldom describe or analyze it. That, of course, is the fascination of the scientific challenge. The feelgood trade's blizzard of lighter-than-air tracts proves nothing whatever about happiness except that a lot of people are willing to pay for help in pursuing...
...melt, a new ice age begins, the oceans disappear, the ozone level is destroyed, terrorists touch off a nuclear war, astronauts bring back a deadly Andromeda Strain. Destruction may also come from a maddened god (Gore Vidal's Kalki). Or in an unending snowstorm (George Stone's Blizzard). Or from the scorching "greenhouse effect" of too much CO2 in the atmosphere (Arthur Herzog's Heat). Or through global political disintegration (The Third World War: August 1985 by a group of English officers and writers). Or even by a reversal of the earth's magnetic fields (Fred...