Word: moratorium
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...longtime defender of the whales, who was appointed at his urging, said that far too little is known about the populations of various species or their reproductive habits to permit the slaughter to go on, even at reduced levels. He backed a British proposal for a moratorium on all commercial whaling...
Conservationist groups replied that the Japanese estimates were grossly overstated. But on the issue of the moratorium, their words, including President Reagan's plea to save "these magnificent creatures," were to no avail. It failed to get a required three-fourths majority. So did another proposal to stop all whaling in the North Atlantic...
...Watt has declared a moratorium on the acquisition of more national parkland, despite the fact that parks are now being used by more people than ever. In 1970 more than 172 million visited the country's national recreation areas; last year at least 300 million toured places like Yosemite, Yellowstone and Glacier. He has also invited private concessionaires to take over many more park functions, such as handling tenting and trailer reservations, running information booths and selling food, though the quality and cost of services now being provided by concessionaires have been the subject of three separate congressional investigations...
...signify life). At week's end, the Atlanta office of the N.A.A.C.P. called for a 24-hour prayer vigil for people of all denominations at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Philip. Coretta Scott King, widow of the slain civil rights leader, last week called for a series of "moratorium on murder" marches around the country, starting with one last weekend from the Georgia state capitol to the Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel at Atlanta's Morehouse College. Said King: "We are determined to project an assertive, nonviolent alternative to the fear and despair which has gripped our community...
...Cambridge City Council last night voted to extend its moratorium on institutional expansion into residential neighborhoods through June...