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...network has given a woman a real shot at the top anchor job since Barbara Walters failed to perform ratings magic for a sluggish ABC reporting staff in the mid-1970s. Waiting in the wings are Diane Sawyer at ABC and Connie Chung at CBS. But the big three networks have been unwilling to alter the competitive lineup of solo anchors that has stood unchanged for almost seven years, although many observers think viewers are yearning for fresh faces...
...Hampshire's Seabrook plant has produced some of the nuclear power industry's fiercest battles, leading to more than 2,500 arrests of protesters since the mid-1970s and to repeated announcements of its demise. Yet like the phoenix, the nuclear plant has a way of rising again. Last week the Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted 3 to 0 to give the station a license to operate at full power. Plant officials praised the decision as a "triumph of reason." They predicted that the reactor, now eleven years overdue for its start-up and carrying a price tag of $6.4 billion...
...genre that got its start as renegade street music back in the mid-1970s. Turned off by the blandness of disco and the slickness of rhythm and blues, disk jockeys in black dance clubs began manipulating their turntables to blend instrumental riffs from different songs, dragging the needle across a record to create an even harsher sound. While these brash mixes played, M.C.s, or rappers, would exhort the crowd with chants: "When I die, bury me deep;/ Put two speakers at my feet,/ A mixer at my head,/ So that when you close the casket/ I can rock the dead...
Reeves, the city's only Black city councillor, said that many minority officers feel that the Police Department actively discriminates against them. Although much progress has been made since the city began affirmative action hiring programs in the mid-1970s, Reeves said, a significant lack of minorities persists in the department's upper echelons. Out of 20 lieutenants on the force, only two are minorities, said Reeves...
...Vitali Korotich, editor of the liberal weekly Ogonyok. The saga of the deathblows inflicted upon Sakharov and his subsequent resurrection reads like a gripping secular sequel to the Russian Orthodox Lives of the Saints. Sakharov had certainly not been expected to survive the frightful ordeal that began in the mid-1970s, when he was targeted by the regime of Leonid Brezhnev as the nation's most dangerous dissident. Vilification in the press, together with threats of imprisonment and assassination, was a common occurrence...