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...international native American speakers, Chicano representatives who live near the mine site, and Anglo representatives Helen Caldicott, the Australian author of Nuclear Madness, and George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus. The gathering provided the basis for ongoing resistance to uranium and coal mining slated for Lakota, Spokane, Ojibwa, Dine and Navajo reservations, along with the land of many other native Americans. Local Chicano residents have been significantly affected by the national nuclear waste isolation pilot project located on a Chicano land grant in the southern part of the state. For these reasons and many others, people of all races...
...that the fierce, dogged spirit of a deeply committed artist lurked in side that scrawny frame. It is hard to say where he will go in the years to come, but perhaps Brickman offers the best clue when he talks about his disagreement with Woody about pizza. When they dine together, Brickman says, "I like the combination pizza. I think the true, important pie is the one with mushrooms, garlic and sausage. He likes the plain cheese pie, which seems to be unimaginative but he would claim is classic. I think now he's tending toward the plain cheese type...
Indeed, as most of the Governors sat through windy discussions of matters on their minds, Brown flitted in and out, followed by reporters. He also declined an invitation to dine at the White House, which 42 other Governors accepted. The Governors finally voted only to reaffirm their earlier plea that the Administration balance the budget by fiscal 1981. Less formally, they asked that budget cuts not be made at the expense of federal revenue sharing with the states...
First stop will be Atlanta, where Teng will tour a Ford Motor Co. assembly plant and a solar energy facility at Georgia Tech and dine with several Governors and other dignitaries. Next, in Houston, Teng may call at the NASA Space Center, look at some specimens of the latest oil-drilling technology, and sample a Texas-style barbecue. Finally, he will probably be shown the Boeing 747 assembly line at Everett, Wash., before heading back to China...
...Ahmed Zaki Yamani is the unofficial leader of the oil world; his word is powerful. This time, however, he was considerably less argumentative than usual. By the time the first session broke up and the ministers put away their pocket calculators and journeyed in heavily guarded motorcycle caravans to dine at the air-conditioned palace of Abu Dhabi's Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, the new price had been virtually accepted. "We chewed on those figures a little more," recalled Venezuela's Valentin Hernandez, "but as we reached for the chunks of lamb at Sheik Zayed...