Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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If Nixon's ABM announcement dashed hopes that he would drastically cut back military spending, his restrained response-or non-response-to the Communist offensive in Viet Nam unsettled some of his more hawkish supporters. Some of his critics attacked on both fronts. South Dakota's George McGovern...
While West Germany will probably ratify the treaty, NPT poses a special problem for Bonn. Formerly, international pressures appeared sufficient to keep the Germans from building atomic bombs-indeed, in 1955 they renounced any such intention. Now, however, some German political leaders, notably Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss, are having...
Systematic Slaughter. That is what they have been getting of late. Last week Hickel make a brief, bravura-like foray into the Florida Everglades to expose an impending natural disaster-the extinction of the American alligator (Alligator mississipiensis). One of 87 species threatened with extermination in the U.S., alligators are...
Ghetto Green Space. Animal protection is not the only area in which Hickel is showing a conservationist's concern. Since the oil-slick disaster off Santa Barbara, Calif., Hickel has drastically curbed drilling in the Santa Barbara Channel. He plans to enlarge the nearby Channel Islands National Monument'...
Columbia's attempts to expand its athletic plant have been as disheartening as the Lions' results in team competition. The latest disaster in New York was the collapse of a bubble-type facility, similar to Harvard's.