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...Norway lets the harpoons fly once again, it will be an act of defiance toward the International Whaling Commission, which reaffirmed a seven-year-old hunting ban at a meeting last week in Kyoto, Japan. Norway, along with Japan, had urged member nations of the IWC to end the moratorium but lost an 18-to-6 vote...
...ARMS RACE BEGINS. RUSSIAN PRESIDENT BORIS YELTSIN has sent word to the White House that if the U.S. lifts its current ban on the testing of nuclear weapons, Russia will also resume testing. Currently, the U.S. military is prohibited from testing until July 1, when the moratorium mandated by Congress ends. The Pentagon wants to resume small-scale testing of bombs under 1 kiloton (explosive force=1,000 tons of TNT). Yeltsin's warning is a signal that if that happens, the nuclear race could be back...
...life, on the other hand, has rarely been sedate. As a peacekeeper with the antiwar forces in the streets of Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, he was beaten by police and spent months on crutches. The next year he was one of four leaders of the Vietnam Moratorium, a massive national series of antiwar protests. In 1986 he devised an eight- month march by more than a thousand people across the U.S. to promote nuclear disarmament; the organization went bankrupt just as the marchers reached the Mojave Desert. Mixner did not focus on gay rights until the advent...
...understand, in this real estate climate, why you would entertain a moratorium," said Hickey. "We are going to be faced with vacant buildings around the Alewife area. This is the gateway of your city...
...only is there no rational dialogue on the issue, but there is no agreement on terms. No one can expect any agreement when the terms that are hurled around are so big and so threateningly fuzzy, like racism and diversity. I would like to suggest a one-year moratorium on the unqualified use of these two words. It would be no big loss. Both have become little more than emotional banners, unwieldy, irresponsible, symbolic conflations of more specific issues and controversies, which we would do well to address directly and honestly. Let me suggest some of these here...