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...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...
...spoke twice. His message: "Only by disarmament can we properly protect our people." The organization behind the huge rally was the Committee for Nuclear Disarmament. Two years ago, the group had 3,000 members; today, counting its affiliates, it has 250,000. C.N.D.'s secretary-general is Monsignor Bruce Kent, 52, a Roman Catholic priest who served in the British army as a tank commander after World War II. The monsignor is a pacifist, but, by his estimate, 80% of the organization he heads is not. Says...
...entirely opposed to weapons of mass destruc- tion, I suppose many of my colleagues would support conven tional weapons of one kind or another. No one at C.N.D. is suggesting that any country abandon all military defense." The C.N.D. wants Britain emptied of nuclear weapons because, says Kent, "we are not prepared to be the first casualties in a war between the superpowers...
...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...