Word: localism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Metropolitan Edison--one of the owners of Three Mile Island--worked with NRC technicians and nuclear engineers trying to stabilize the haywire reactor, local residents were left uninformed. Hazardous Xenon 131 gas seeped into the atmosphere, and high-level bursts of radiation escaped to the containment building as plant officials released steam from the overheating equipment. Such steam releases were made, initially, without notifying local civil defense officials, who later expressed outrage at the situation's handling. These releases may have left their cancerous mark on thousands...
Kahn also discussed a variety of local and national issues with about 100 members of Massachusetts Fair Share yesterday...
...Local 26 at Harvard have suffered a tragic loss. Our Union Brother Sherman Holcombe has passed away. Brother Sherman stood by us and stood for us. We are together today and have won the gains we have won: because Brother Sherman was one of us. He united us both Black and White, even in the face of the ugly prejudice in society. He was an advocate of human rights, our rights, and set a precedent of standing up for our rights. When the pressure came down on all of us he bore the brunt of it to the extent...
Shelter accepts referrals from the YMCA, Salvation Army, local churches, the welfare department, and other agencies. Pine Street accepts 300 men on a non-referral basis, and Rosie's accommodates ten women with restrictions to insure the beds rotate among different guests...
...YEARS AGO TODAY, at dawn, 400 state and local policemen marched up the steps of University Hall, clubs raised, and began the brutal eviction of hundreds of student demonstrators who had occupied the building. More than 75 students were injured in the raid, and an appalled University came together for a momentous nine-day strike--nine days of the most dynamic political activity this University has seen. Just as the police bust was the last vain attempt of the Harvard administration to restore its own vision of a Harvard that had quite simply ceased to exist, the strike that followed...