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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...numbers would appear in the newscasts that night and the papers the next day: nearly 600 charged with criminal tresspassing in the largest act of anti-nuclear in the largest act of anti-nuclear civil disobedience since "the Seabrook 1414" in April 1977, and over 15,000 at a separate legal rally held on a strip of beach a mile from the Shoreham reactor...
...Sandinistas increased in numbers, they also picked up new recruits from Nicaragua's upper and middle classes. Within the FSLN, three main factions have emerged from the infighting. Of these, two make no apology for being unabashedly Marxist. But the third and largest group, known as the Terceristas (Insurrectionists), is composed of socialists, Roman Catholic liberals (including many priests), trade unionists and even a few businessmen...
Several of the largest American contractors, notably Textron's Bell Helicopter Division, Grumman, Lockheed and Boeing, are protected from big losses by the standard U.S. guarantees for arms sales. But other companies involved in civilian projects have no recourse, except to Iranian courts. For example, Brown & Root, the Texas-based construction company, whose $1.2 billion contract to build a naval base was canceled, has made little progress in persuading the Iranians to settle on termination damages. Fluor had completed 95% of a refinery near Isfahan before the revolution made further work too hazardous and is insisting upon back payments...
Despite those vehement denials, the story that West Germany's largest auto firm was aiming to take over the U.S.'s deeply troubled No. 3 automaker immediately became the hottest non-news of the week. Even though the report was scoffed at by both parties concerned, the rapidity with which it ricocheted through Detroit and Wall Street testified to the atmosphere of anxiety that surrounds Chrysler, which is expected to lose at least $285 million, and possibly more, this year...
Superbly mounted with the understated elegance that is characteristic of the Morgan's style, the show is far and away the largest single display of Michelangelo drawings ever seen...