Word: commoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protest rallies, "clamshell alliances" and sit-ins, were very much on the defensive. Their complaints about plant safety had lacked credibility; the exigencies of the nation's energy crisis were unarguable; the fragility and risk, to some degree inherent in many parts of an advanced industrial society, had a common-sense acceptance as inevitable. But the price of progress, like the price of anything, has a ceiling, and for the nuclear power industry, the radioactive gases drifting from Three Mile Island have undeniably raised the price?and public consciousness about the risks?of nuclear power. Just how high rests...
Peace has one thing in common...
...achievement of historic significance." But beneath the surface, Europeans worried about the treaty's consequences. The British feared that the treaty's vagueness over autonomy for the Palestinians could lead to an explosion within the Arab countries and seriously undermine moderate political forces there. The Common Market nations, which get 68% of their oil from the Middle East, gently tried to dissociate themselves from the treaty, fearing that open enthusiasm could make enemies among the Arab oil producers. Reported TIME Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn: "There is a distinct lack of dancing in the streets here. Europeans...
...live in Pennsylvania, we all live in Pennsylvania," chanted a crowd of between 2000 and 3000 student demonstrators Wednesday afternoon at the Common...
Twenty-five hundred demonstrators massed on Boston Common Sunday afternoon at a Clamshell Alliance-sponsored rally. The turnout for the protest--planned only two days before--showed the power of the Harrisburg incident, Diane Keefe, a Clamshell organizer, told the crowd...