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Forsberg's freeze proposal was first published in April 1980, in a booklet titled Call to Halt the Nuclear Arms Race, but it attracted scant attention. Only after November 1980, when voters in three state senate districts in Massachusetts approved a freeze resolution by 59% to 41%, did the proposal begin to draw wide support. "What that told us," says Randy Kehler, a former schoolteacher and antiwar activist, "was that Ronald Reagan's election was not necessarily synonymous with support of the nuclear-arms race." At last count, freeze resolutions had been passed in 257 town meetings in New England...
Perhaps the most significant local freeze campaign involves the so-called California initiative, which would require the state's Governor, reflecting the will of the people, to advise the President that he should propose to the Soviet Union an immediate halt to the "testing, production and further deployment of nuclear weapons ... in a way that can be verified by both sides." The brainchild of Liberal Activist Harold Willens, board chairman of the Los Angeles-based Factory Equipment Corp., the initiative has been endorsed by Governor Jerry Brown. Backers have gathered more than 600,000 signatures, nearly twice as many...
...desperate attempt to halt the drop in prices, members of OPEC gathered in Vienna over the weekend and announced an agreement for a modest production cut of 200,000 bbl. a day to 18 million bbl. a day. It is the first time the members have agreed jointly to curtail output in order to stabilize prices. Nevertheless, a number of OPEC states are already badly in need of cash, and will be sorely tempted to increase production in the weeks and months ahead...
...January deeply impressed with the burgeoning grass-roots movement against nuclear arms. Republican Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon agreed to join him as sponsor, and the two lawmakers spent several weeks lining up other supporters. The single-page resolution calls upon both Washington and Moscow to "pursue a complete halt to the nuclear arms race," asks for a bilateral ban on the "testing, production, and further deployment of nuclear warheads," and urges "major reductions" in stockpiled weapons...
December output and may fall further as a result of the Reagan Administration's formal halt to Libyan imports last week...