Word: christic
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...flight. Nonetheless, a sharp controversy has dogged the mission. At issue is the space probe's power source: two radioisotope thermoelectric generators that are fueled by almost 50 lbs. of highly radioactive plutonium 238. Antinuclear groups, led by the Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice and the Washington-based Christic Institute, have claimed that the generators are unsafe. Their view is shared by Richard Cuddihy, an analyst with the Inhalation Toxicology Research Center in Albuquerque and the lone dissenter on the federal interagency panel that recommended a go-ahead for the Galileo program. Says Cuddihy: "The risks of the launch...
...former U.S. intelligence agents and anti-Communist crusaders -- including prominent figures in the Iran-contra mess -- had engaged in "political assassination, gunrunning and drug trafficking." Last week, just before the case was to go to trial, Federal Judge James Lawrence King ruled that Sheehan and his colleagues at the Christic Institute, a Washington public-interest law firm, had failed to prove their conspiracy theory...
...silencing of Calero at Harvard Law School did deny us an opportunity to hear this U.S.-sponsored terrorist excuse his violence. Hopefully, Tony Avirgan and his lawyer Daniel Sheehan, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School associated with the Christic Institue, will yet enable Calero to speak, but under oath and cross-examination. Michael L. Charney, M.D. Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry Harvard Medical School
...said the Christic Institute, a small,interfaith public interest law firm, is chargingthe 29 with violating the 1970 Racketeer Influenceand Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act, which wasdesigned to combat organized crime...
...hour speech, the lawyer describedevidence that Christic Institute lawyers saypoints to an elaborate nationwide network offormer CIA and FBI operatives, governmentofficials, and independent civilians throughoutthe country...