Word: gaspeing
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...condemned Welch and his group. Welch had offended nearly everyone by then, especially with his call for complete and unilateral American withdrawal from Vietnam in 1965. By Welch's peculiar reasoning, Communists were running both sides of the war, and the United States was paying for it. A last gasp of attention came in the late '60s, as a result of a campaign more renowned for its slogan than its effect, "Support Your Local Police...
Bova conveys his message entertainingly. His writing is competent, if not spectacular, and while the "futuristic technology" involved--killer satellites (gasp!) and moon bases--is old hat to science fiction fans, the interplay between science and politics and the bitter metamorphosis of Chester Arthur Kinsman should keep readers interested...
...attempts by the government and the companies over the last decade have done little to ensure "reliable power" for industrial growth. If the work of GASP is a precedent, the industrialization and mining slated for "sparsely populated" areas might never come off the drawing boards...
...company-hired security men, following up all leads in the case, began tailing him. What began as surveillance ended up as high-speed car chase, with the five pickup trucks full of Burns Security Guards (rented from a Chicago firm) trying to run Hoyum to earth. Debbie Pick of Gasp relates what happened next...
Farmers in the southern part of the state are now organizing too. Activists in the Southern Landowners' Association have told GASP that their organizational efforts will make GASP'S struggle "seem like a kintergarden picnic...