Word: environmentalists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West Germany, opposition is more heated. The country now has 14 operating atomic-power stations, supplying about 10% of its electricity. During a series of recent local elections the new, environmentalist Green Party made impressive gains based largely on its opposition to the nuclear industry. Though the West German government strongly supports atomic power, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt admits he is prevented from moving as quickly as he would like. Says Schmidt: "One cannot simply force nuclear energy down people's throats...
...many of his listeners, including Sierra Club members, seemed more interested in Kennedy the politician than Kennedy the environmentalist...
...Sierra Club and among other environmentalist groups, feathers are flying over even that much meddling in condor affairs. Some are threatening legal action to protect the big birds from their protectors. Says David Phillips, spokesman for the San Francisco-based Friends of the Earth: "Human interference has already pushed the condor closer to extinction. It's inherently too risky." Maybe so. But William Conway, director of the New York Zoological Society, points out that captive breeding has already saved the elephant seal, down to 20 animals in 1890 and now back up to nearly 40,000. It has also...
...voltage drop of even a few seconds could cause the displayed page of text to disappear on her Burroughs Redactor-III. (Apple Computer Inc. offers an accessory for just such occasions-a battery pack that supplies electricity during blackouts. Its name: Apple Juice.) The most surreal glitch occurred when Environmentalist-Writer Michael Parfit, 30, recently heard a zap, and his Radio Shack TRS-80 stopped dead. It seemed that ants had crawled into the air vents...
...points and produce was confiscated from 12,661 of the 286,240 cars and trucks checked. But aerial support was vital, and many Californians, especially farmers, were angry that spraying did not start sooner. At first Governor Jerry Brown had resisted, evidently concerned that he would alienate his strong environmentalist constituency. He changed his mind when U.S. Agriculture Secretary John Block began planning a quarantine. Complained California Senator S.I. Hayakawa: "Brown should have done this eight months ago. Now we are in a position of playing catch-up." Then, with customary chutzpah, the Governor requested that President Reagan declare...