Word: hiroshima
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's determination to exorcise the demons of Alamogordo and Hiroshima explains the insistence in the strategic concept that defenses too must be nonnuclear. Some of Reagan's own Star Wars planners privately feel that the language of the document is too restrictive, since some possible schemes for S.D.I. would require nuclear explosions in order to work (see following story). While Reagan takes seriously the goal of a nuclear-free world, most members of his Government still do not. "It's there in our rhetoric because the President wants it there, and he's the boss," says a Pentagon official...
...past two year, contributors across the country have created banner segments in accordance with he scheme "What I would miss most in a nuclear war." According to organizers, each state will bring its finished product to Washington on August 4, the 40th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The 50 ribbons will be tied together and strung around the government complex in a weekend-long demonstration that has been approved by the Pentagon through the General Services Administration...
Grodzins said that the banner movement started in 1983, when over 50 pro-freeze groups--like the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the National Freeze Campaign in St. Louis--decided to approach their cause in a new way. "These groups saw the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombings as a compelling event," she explained, "We see that, 40 years later, we've still made no breakthoughs...
Mazda Motor of Hiroshima, well known for the rotary engine that is the soul of its spirited RX-7 sports car, is joining Japan's automotive invasion of the U.S. Mazda announced last week that it would start producing cars in Michigan in 1987, bringing to four the number of Japanese automakers manufacturing in the U.S. Honda has a plant in Marysville, Ohio; Nissan has one in Smyrna, Tenn., and Toyota will begin producing cars this month in a venture with General Motors in Fremont, Calif. Mazda plans to construct a $450 million assembly plant near a Ford foundry...
Brave words, if not wise ones. But Henze, a sybaritic socialist with a well-developed taste for capitalist pleasures, has never let politics stand in the way of artistic success. He excoriates the Nazis, the treatment of blacks in the South and the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima, while overlooking such evils as Stalin's Gulag. Yet the opera's blinkered world view is secondary to its musical and dramatic substance-for the audience and, perhaps, for the composer as well...