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...weekend of April 27-29, 1979 marked a turning point in Indian resistance, and may even herald the beginning of the end for the source of the nuclear fuel cycle. On those dates, thousands of Navajo and Pueblo Indians--joined by Chicano and Anglo supporters--physically and spiritually protested uranium mining on native lands. The demonstration occurred at Mt. Taylor, N.M., a sacred mountain to local natives and the site of a Gulf Oil-owned underground uranium mine--the deepest of its kind in the world. Beyond the implications of bringing 100 million pounds of uranium from deep within...
...Motion Picture Academy in years past has displayed a distaste for political controversy; half a decade ago, a streaker was more acceptable than an Oscar winner with the temerity to rail against the war. But as a headline in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner put it last week...
...England's future King was a nubile nymph, clearly carrying no concealed weapons, who hugged and kissed an unprotesting Charles. The Prince was also kissed by a young housewife and by an ecstatic elderly lady. Recalling similar smooching on Charles' previous Australian visits, the Melbourne Herald sought explanations from Body Language Expert Desmond (The Naked Ape) Morris, who blamed it on Charles' friendly grin. "If he scowled or showed alarm or just cultivated a blank expression, it wouldn't happen. Queen Victoria did this, and not many kissed her." Not many wanted to, for that matter...
...courageous act," said Harold Blumberg, executive director of Boston's n. American Jewish Committee. "A bold and desperate gamble," wrote the Miami Herald. Said Ted Bonda, an Ohio Democrat and former owner of the Cleveland Indians: "He's put his and the country's prestige on the line," As Jimmy Carter left for the Middle East, Americans by the hundreds phoned the White House, not to voice approval or disapproval but simply to wish the President good luck. There was at first a general assumption that he had received assurances from Israel and Egypt that his trip...
...nearby relative was stoned later in the week when the family moved in with her. Police found ten suspects, all of whom were charged with vandalism, a misdemeanor. This story took up only one column on page three of The Globe, under the headline "Guatemalan Family Flees." The Boston Herald American didn't carry the story at all. After pressure from a state representative and a lawyer from the Civil Liberties Union, Mayor White issued a statement "deploring" violence and reminding protesters that "such incidents do not occur everyday...