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Beginning the task of sifting through the fallout from their nationally publicized call for nuclear disarmament, the Cambridge City Council last night discussed a number of ways they might continue the "peace offensive" begun earlier this fall with the publication of an "alternative" civil defense brochure...
...idea of driving away from nuclear fallout and to Greenfield, was "partially misleading," Wylie said, because "if Cambridge is the target of a nuclear attack, then we've all had it." Wylie added, "We were determined not to mislead the public, but to give them the unadorned facts...
Industry observers, however, are worried about one unexpected fallout from the controller walkout: the "reregulation" of the airlines. The Civil Aeronautics Board began dropping restrictions on airline routes and prices in 1977 as a way of lowering ticket prices for travelers and making the carriers more economically efficient. Now, to maintain safety in the skies the FAA is limiting the number of flights and the availability of seats. That move could channel business to some carriers by fiat and shut others out, making service and fares less competitive and defeating the goals of deregulation. The end result would then...
...declared one Soviet commentator. TASS, the government news agency, said that the decision illustrated Ronald Reagan's "cannibalistic instincts," and was "an extremely dangerous step toward the further spiraling of the arms race and enhancing the threat of nuclear war." Some Western European officials worried that the political fallout would damage the Atlantic Alliance by bringing on a new surge of pacifism and neutralism. But President Reagan, relaxing at his California ranch, was unfazed by the outcry. Said he of the Soviets...
...degrees at the centers of the explosions); earthquake-resistant buildings crumpled by the shock waves; human flesh burned 2½ miles from the targets. Less well known, perhaps: the sticky black rain, triggered by hot ash and dust blasted up into the cold air, that showered deadly radioactive fallout on the cities...