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...Mark C. Cogan, a member of the Lawyer's Committee on Nuclear Policy who assisted in preparing the referendum, said the measure is similar to the state of California's moratorium on the construction of nuclear power plants, a policy recently upheld in the U.S. Supreme Court...
...nation's nuclear power industry is already reeling from cost overruns, widespread public doubts and a snarl of ever changing Government regulations. Last week it was dealt another blow: the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 9-to-0 decision, upheld a California moratorium enacted in 1976 that bans certification of new nuclear facilities until the Federal Government finds a way to dispose permanently of the plants' highly radioactive waste products. The ruling, which affects only future construction, opens the door for wider state involvement...
Other opponents of nuclear power regarded the ruling as a potent new weapon. "The decision is another nail in the coffin of nuclear power," declared Michael Paparian, a lobbyist for the Sierra Club, an environmental organization. "The ruling," said Jerry Brown, who was Governor of California when the moratorium was passed, "further strengthens the power of the states to regulate their own economic destiny...
...when one of three men in a car pumped six shots into his rig on I-55 near Crystal Springs, Miss. Three shots hit the driver's door, but Wells escaped unharmed. Out of fear, as much as sympathy for the strike, some truckers held a serf-proclaimed moratorium on work. Said a Texas trucker at the Crossroads Truck Stop in Gary, Ind.: "A lot of guys have given up for a few days, gone home and parked their rigs in the driveway hoping this nasty stuff will blow over." But for many, there was no choice. "Hell...
Reagan seemed also to have stolen a march on the Soviets. Leonid Brezhnev had been achieving considerable success with his "peace campaign" and his call for a moratorium on nuclear weapons in Europe. Suddenly that appeal seemed pale compared with Reagan's dramatic proposal "to get rid of an entire class of missiles," as Nitze...