Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last to die that year was Luis Jose Monge, who was gassed in Colorado for murdering his pregnant wife and three children. In 1977, Murderer Gary Gilmore was executed in Utah, but he scorned all appeals and went willingly before the firing squad, saying just before his death...
...chief of the Office of Personnel Management: "The ceilings are creating some need for reshuffling and reassigning of employees, but people can live within the limits and still perform their functions." Bureaucrats also quail at the threat of having to leave Washington. Leach would like to rusticate Energy to Colorado, Agriculture to Iowa, coincidentally Leach's home state. Says he: "This would give bureaucrats the opportunity to live under the rules they write and see firsthand the too often counterproductive efforts of a well-meaning Uncle Sam." Could be. But there is not much chance of the bureaucracy budging...
...COLORADO--Federal marshals arrested at least 150 anti-nuclear activists trained in civil disobedience Sunday when the protesters marched in front of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant about 16 miles northwest of Denver. Rocky Flats is the nation's only producer of plutonium "triggers" for nuclear weapons...
About 300 Colorado protesters, led by Daniel Ellsberg '52, had trained for weeks in a plan to blockade three entrances to the plant. However, about two dozen federal marshals and security guards from Rockwell International were waiting to greet them at the plant's east and west gates and at a railroad spur leading into the facility. Ellsberg was arrested at the railroad tracks, just as he had been while protesting against the plant exactly a year...
...Unmarried Woman: Aspects of Spinsterhood in Ante-Bellum New England--Lee Chambers--Schiller, associate professor of History, University of Colorado, Agassiz House...