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...West German state of Lower Saxony. Social Democrat Gerhard Schroder, a candidate for minister-president, calls the vote a "people's referendum on nuclear power." Feelings on the issue are running high. Earlier this month, riot police battled demonstrators protesting the construction of a radioactive waste dump in the village of Gorleben...
...what is the right formula? Not everyone is threatened by a nuclear waste dump in his backyard. The Baby Boomers remain exceedingly leery of conventional politicians. Though Eugene McCarthy's "children's crusade" helped speed Lyndon Johnson's departure from the White House in 1969, the slow wind down of the Viet Nam War and the depressing revelations of Watergate, not to mention images of assassinated heroes burned into their brainpans by TV, turned off many Baby Boomers to politics just as they were reaching voting age. Voter participation among Baby Boomers remained well below the national average into...
Marcos is gone; Baby Doc too. So why not dump all the other dictators? Because democracy is not that easy to transplant...
UMASS, BOSTON. The University of Massachusetts at Boston has a campus dug out of a harborside dump site and faces ferocious competition for students and faculty; some 55 other nearby colleges and universities, most of them private and including Harvard and M.I.T., tend to gobble up any good academic body...
...reputation as a fun-in-the-sun country club, President Thaddeus Seymour ordered studies of what ailed the place and how it might be cured. The studies concluded that small was good, and the best way for Rollins to upgrade was to build on strong points and dump weak departments...