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...West European peace movement already talk of major protests across the Continent in the months leading up to the first missile deployment. Last week demonstrators were once again out in force in West Germany and Denmark. In Britain, 30,000 women joined hands to form a nine-mile "ring of peace" around a Royal Air Force base at Greenham Common, 50 miles west of London, that has been designated as a site for cruise missiles. There to record the scuffles between demonstrators and police was a Soviet television crew. Said a senior U.S. State Department official: "They are hoping that...
...Cairo when Sister Emmanuelle, 74, awakens in her hut with its dirt floor and gaping hole in the roof. After washing in a bucket, she sets out on a two-mile walk to attend Mass at the nearest church. She is clad in a white smock and a necklace
...became an obsession and ultimately ended in a hollow if not insane act of protest. Yet before his bluff was called, Mayer, 66, a balding drifter, managed to frighten the city of Washington and stage a blatant and bizarre act of terrorism at the Washington Monument, less than a mile from the White House...
...regulator of the nuclear power industry were split between what subsequently became the Department of Energy, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Unfortunately, the N.R.C. has largely continued to give safety a low priority. One major result of thirty years of ignorance and mismanagement was the accident at Three Mile Island in March, 1979. Yet Ford well knows that, relative to what might happen. Three Mile Island was only a minor mishap. In one incident in 1961 that the A.E.C. did not "take seriously," an entire reactor at the Commission's Idaho test station exploded when a workman, possibly bent...
...Barrett (H) 2:16.4,3) Connelly (BC) 2:18.04) Conigliar (BC) 2.22.9; 200m--1) Freeman (BC) 26.3,2) Scharoun (H) 26:6.3) BUSby (H) 26.9.4) Wilkens (BC) 27.3;3000m--1) Brommer (H) 9:38.5,2) Good (H) 9:39.5,3) Hallett (BC) 9:43.7.4) Daley (BC) 10:08.4; Mile Relay--1) Harvard 4:04.8,2) BC 4:06.2;2 Mile Relay--1) Harvard...