Word: kent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Britain the Committee for Nuclear Disarmament condemned martial law in Poland. Its leaders, however, are unwilling to take stronger action, because they do not want to side with the U.S. Says Bruce Kent, the C.N.D. head: "We will come in with the Americans when they will treat Turkey, Haiti and El Salvador the way they are treating Poland." By far the strongest condemnation of the events in Poland was issued by the Dutch Inter-Church Peace Council, which had been one of the most effective peace groups that organized protests against the deployment of U.S. missiles. The council conceded that...
Their plan was inspired by Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov's successful hunger strike late last year. Augustina started taking only juice and water on Dec 25, despite the opposition of Pyotr and the Christian teaching against suicide. Lidiya joined her three days later. When Historian Kent Hill of Seattle Pacific University flew to Moscow, Lidiya told him, "Here I am with no end in sight. I can't bear it. If I can't have a normal life, I'd sooner...
...Kent Schwitzer, a Minnesota physician, warned that alcohol can be fatal in extreme cold and advised those who had consumed alcohol to remain in doors...
...problem is epidemic. A study done at the University of California found that between 1977 and 1980 only half of 50,000 students could demonstrate reading and writing skills necessary for college-level courses. At Kent State University, 25% of entering freshman classes left school after two years of below-average work. In Georgia's 33 institutions of higher education, more than $6 million was spent this year on "developmental studies," the pedagogical euphemism for remedial training. At Ohio State University, 42% of this fall's entering freshmen were required to take at least one remedial course...
...C.N.D. is not urging the U.S. to scrap its own nuclear arsenal. "What we are saying to both superpowers," points out Kent, "is that without any more negotiations you could both cut massively into your nuclear stocks without risk because you both have enough for deterrence." The national headquarters of C.N.D. is a few cramped offices in London's seedy Camden Town. Twelve full-time staffers (two of whom are Communists) and 20 volunteers clad in jeans and T shirts stuff envelopes, sort mail and dispatch the leaflets, badges and stickers that have already brought in $200,000 this year...