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...whales are on a nation-wide tour to help promote a ten-year moratorium on whale killing at the next International Whaling Commission meeting," Deirdre Devine, a spokesman for Greenpeace, a Boston-based seal and whale conservation group, said yesterday...
...national moratorium on new "nukes," similar to those already in effect in several states, could lead to slower growth of electric supply, less industrial production, fewer jobs, lower standards of living. Oil cannot take over the role of nuclear power in generating electricity, even if the nation were foolish or desperate enough to speed up the already frightening increase of oil imports. Petroleum is too expensive and too much in demand for transportation, home heating, chemical output...
Only one man has been executed since 1967: Gary Gilmore, who also asked to die, and was killed by a firing squad in Utah two years ago. But unless the law takes an unexpected turn toward leniency, a decade-long de facto moratorium on the death penalty may come to an end starting this summer. If so, many condemned men who definitely want to live will...
...House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, which must approve parts of any Carter energy package. Said Udall after the Three Mile Island accident: "We may have rushed headlong into a dangerous technology without sufficient understanding of the pitfalls." Both Udall and Alaska Senator Mike Gravel demanded an outright moratorium on all new nuclear power plants...
Alvin Weinberg, a nuclear power advocate and coauthor of a new book, Economic and Environmental Implications of a U.S. Nuclear Moratorium, believes the alternatives to atomic power "are so crummy that we probably should in a cautious way continue this nuclear enterprise." Other experts will certainly disagree. Perhaps the most unarguable assessment is that of Pennsylvania Republican Senator Richard Schweiker: "The nuclear industry is on trial as it never has been before...