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...weightier issues in their April student elections. Like a similar movement at Brown University, a group of Santa Cruz students is sponsoring a measure asking the school administration in stock suicide pills for use in the event of a nuclear attack. The measure, sponsored by the Student Alliance for Fallout Emergency, or SAFE, also asks for on campus mass grave sites so irradiated bodies can be quickly disposed. Although Santa Cruz Chancellor Robert Sinsheimer opposes the measure with the claim that "such actions cannot be the mission of a university," backers say that win or lose, "just the fact that...
...have all the allure of a bus station and all the grace of a fallout shelter, but Filene's basement is as much a part of Boston as the Bruins
...actively advocated a plan "once and for all to get rid of the Chinese threat." Grechko, a dim-witted martinet replaced by Dimitri Ustinov in 1976, called for unrestricted use of the multimegaton bomb known in the West as the "blockbuster." The bomb would release enormous amounts of radioactive fallout, not only killing millions of Chinese but threatening Soviet citizens in the Far East and people in other countries bordering China...
...only a new mind." Or, Blake: "the eye altering, alters all." When there is a new perception in poetry and a change of the form, it generally means a change of body rhythm, a change in thinking about language, and a change in consciousness itself. And this has a fallout. It changes the way people relate to each other sexually, how people relate to the authority around them, how people relate to the military, how people relate to religion. I would say that poetics and politics are inseperable...
...weeks after a major nuclear war, and the searing white flashes of 25,000 bombs have faded into a black drizzle of radioactive fallout. Yet Armageddon is not complete: for miles above the earth, sunlight is blotted out by plumes of smoke from the vast conflagrations in which the major cities of the Northern Hemisphere have been consumed. This thick veil of soot and dust slowly circulates through various layers of the atmosphere, blanketing entire continents, creating a world of frigid darkness. As ground temperatures plummet by as much as 40° F and the sun is obscured, crops...