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...Thursday, however, Moore had to thread his car through the largest demonstration ever held at the test site. Nearly 2,000 people rode buses and cars into the desert to protest the first U.S. nuclear explosion of the year $ and the 25th since the Soviet Union unilaterally declared a moratorium on nuclear testing in August 1985. Nye County authorities arrested 438 people, including Astronomer Carl Sagan, Antiwar Activist Daniel Ellsberg, Actor Martin Sheen and Singer Kris Kristofferson, for trespassing on Department of Energy property. Said Sagan of the testing program: "We've built a kind of doomsday machine, which threatens...
...test, code-named Hazebrook, was set off Tuesday, two days ahead of schedule. The subsequent protest was not confined to Nevada. On Capitol Hill, the House Democratic caucus proposed that Congress cut off funds for further U.S. nuclear tests as long as the Soviet Union adheres to its testing moratorium. The House Democrats called on President Reagan to negotiate with the Soviets to achieve a "reciprocal, simultaneous and verifiable" test ban. The Soviets, meanwhile, announced they would soon resume testing in response to the U.S. action...
...really a fireable offense. Many bosses feel that a worker's track record on the job speaks more strongly than a stretched résumé, says John Challenger of the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Rather than booting talented workers, Challenger suggests, employers should offer an amnesty period. "A moratorium would let anyone who needs to come clean," he says. And the culprit could always go back to school and finish that degree--maybe even on company time...
...moratorium has had no practical effect and I think it would be good to lift it,? said Thomas Brown, the chief prosecutor for rural Livingston County, who won a new death sentence for the only person who was cleared from Death Row by Ryan but then returned for a separate murder case. ?We?ve had to start filling it back up one by one, and there?s no case that?s ripe yet so it could be 15 or 20 years of appeals before anyone actually is executed (if the moratorium gets lifted). There?s this push for perfection...
...debate over Illinois's pioneering roll back of the death penalty comes as more and more states are conducting their own reappraisals. In recent years, states from New York and New Jersey to Kansas, Virginia, Kentucky and California, have either enacted a similar moratorium, had certain executions ruled out by the courts or at least started doing comprehensive studies of the death penalty system...