Word: environmentalists
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Against all predictions, the opposition Social Democratic Party won a decisive 51.3% majority in Hamburg, up from 42.7% in the election seven months ago. The Christian Democrats dropped to 38.6% from 43.2%, while the environmentalist and pacifist group known as the Greens receded to 6.8%, from 7.7%. Since the Social Democrats did not get a working majority in the June election, Mayor Klaus von Dohnanyi tried forming a coalition with the Greens to run Hamburg. The attempt failed, and because the Social Democrats did not have the majority required to govern on their own, new elections were required...
...envelope. As he warily began to open it, the envelope exploded into flames, burning the man's face and hands. Thatcher, however, was not harmed. According to a note enclosed in the 7½-in. by 5-in. envelope, the attack was the work of a previously unknown environmentalist group, the Animal Rights Militia...
With an increasing number of areas classified by scientists as "sensitive" to acid stress in both North America and Europe, some environmental experts fear that an even more alarming and often irreversible deterioration may take place before corrective measures are taken. The concern of environmentalists is that industrialists will continue to use delaying tactics to put off costly capital improvements necessary to reduce emissions. Says Richard Ayres, chairman of the National Clean Air Coalition, an amalgam of environmentalist groups: "The costs [for cleaning up emissions] aren't trivial. But neither is the damage. A nation that can afford...
...HISTORIC Stockholm Conference in 1972, conservationists first made the world aware that natural resources are finite. The meeting kicked off environmentalist movements in number of countries, as people and groups began to realize that the traditional global pattern of resource consumption without regard for the future could lead to disaster. Today, a relatively small circle of concerned scientists have launched a similar campaign to end the wholesale destruction of a little-known endangered resource--the tropical rain forest...
Significantly, Kohl has agreed to appoint Friedrich Zimmermann, 57, his Interior Minister. Zimmermann is a conservative long known for his anti-immigration and anti environmentalist views. His name was put forward for the job by Franz Josef Strauss, the abrasive head of the Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister party to the C.D.U.* The Interior Minister's appointment has already raised protests from a wide range of left-wing groups, including the Greens, the growing third force in West German politics, who recently won 8% of the vote in local elections in the industrial state of Hesse. A loose...