Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that they supply today. "The way I see it, the nuclear power industry does not have a future," says an executive of an atomic plant near Toledo. His gloom is extreme, but the friends and foes of nuclear power agree that the Pennsylvania accident can only strengthen the effective campaign against the building of new nuclear facilities. Says Alexander Polikoff, executive director of Business and Professional People for the Public Interest, a Chicago antinuclear group: "If one blows in Pennsylvania, who is going to want to live near one in New Mexico...
...gently persuade uncommitted state legislators to vote against budget-balancing resolutions. A key target is New Hampshire, which holds hearings this week. Expected to testify on behalf of the proposals is California Governor Jerry Brown, who has made opposition to deficit financing a central theme of his pre-presidential campaign. Another target is Ohio, where a legislator received a letter from Jimmy Carter denouncing the amendment as "political gimmickry" that would be "so filled with loopholes as to be meaningless or so rigid as to tie the nation's hands in time of war or depression...
During the past 30 years, Israel and Egypt have waged war. For the past 16 months, these two great nations have waged peace. Today we celebrate a victory-not of a bloody military campaign, but of an inspiring peace campaign. Two leaders who will loom large in the history of nations, President Anwar Sadat and Prime Minister Menachem Begin, have conducted this campaign with all the courage, tenacity, brilliance and inspiration of any generals who ever led men and machines onto the field of battle...
Throughout the world, pro-Palestinian demonstrators conducted a campaign of violent protest. In Bangladesh, students stormed the Egyptian ambassador's residence and held him at gunpoint for eight hours. In Paris, a bomb exploded in a Jewish student restaurant, injuring 26, and two explosions in Israel killed one bystander and wounded 28. Still another bomb damaged the Israeli mission in Ankara. Even in Peking, a band Palestinian students marched on of the Egyptian embassy, smashed windows, tore down a portrait of Sadat and injured several Chinese soldiers...
...debacle. "At the same time, we are failing to utilize a vast reservoir of the nation's youth to meet social, economic, and environmental needs." At the Ford Foundation, McGeorge Bundy, under the guise of a report entitled "Youth and the Needs of the Nation," is bankrolling a lobbying campaign for the national service...