Word: halte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN BOSTON demonstrators confronted Gov. Edward J. King here in Massachusetts and demanded a halt to nuclear power, pointing out the grave dangers it poses, he responded, "But we NEEEEED it." Jimmy Carter gave essentially the same answer when asked if his opinions on nuclear power had changed because of the Three Mile Island accdent. They hadn't. In other words, we are addicted to nuclear power...
This conference follows a law suit filed in December 1978 by 92 Navajos and one Acoma Indian in an effort to halt uranium production indefinitely. These two groups represent contingents of growing Indian resistance to government and corporate exploitation of Indian land, resources and people...
...Dalton Pass Chapter of the reservation passed a resolution late last spring calling for a halt to all uranium exploration and mining on their lands. The impact was nil. Development continues unabated as the TVA-Mobil-United Nuclear consortium project expands from uranium exploration into mine shaft and mill construction. The miners will be drawn from the Navajo population, with the "specialists" being non-Indian experts from outside the reservation. This project, in conjunction with the many other coal and uranium mining projects, promises to make a uranium boom town out of a hitherto traditional Navajo community. In turn, according...
...halt for lack of energy? Back to the caves...
...those needs became a major issue in the strike. Students subsequently worked with tenants' groups in Cambridge and Roxbury, with mixed success. The strikers helped pressure the University into building a housing complex in Roxbury; three buildings in that project are named after Harvard students. They did not, however, halt Harvard's expansion, didn't prevent rent increases in Harvard-owned buildings, didn't save houses from demolition. "But failing there doesn't mean we were wrong to fight about it," Berg says. "It just means we didn't do it well enough...