Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stock ownership, what can justify this disproportion? I think there were two answers given in the debate last time given by Professors Walzer and Higonnet. Prof. Walzer said he would have emphasized rather more the particular cruelty and the particular degradation that was involved in singling out a nation or a religious group or a race for systematic oppression. Why did my friend say "nation, religious group, or race" and not say "class"? Isn't genocide also the genocide of a class? I beg leave of good Dean Bowersock to translate the word "genus" in genocide as the killing...
...suggestions were seen as an effort to fill positions for which there are not enough blacks and an attempt to assuage criticism of the nation's racial policies...
...second big company to move into the area was Kerr McGee. In the mid-1950s, Kerr McGee discovered the uranium reserves of the Navajo Nation. Within a few years, the company had developed a series of underground uranium mines and a uranium mill at Shiprock, the major population center of the Navajo reservation. According to provisions of the BIA-negotiated lease, Kerr McGee held rights to the land "for as long as the ore is producing in payable quantities." The BIA viewed the mines as a welcome boost to the Navajo economy, providing jobs for a people plagued with unemployment...
...Indian reservations, the native peoples will bear the brunt of Carter's energy policy. The land is leased, underground and strip mining commences, and people are relocated. The "Indian wars" are not over. In one year, according to Peter MacDonald, tribal chairman of the Navajo reservation, "The Navajo Nation exports enough energy resources to fuel the needs of the state of New Mexico for 32 years...
COLORADO--Federal marshals arrested at least 150 anti-nuclear activists trained in civil disobedience Sunday when the protesters marched in front of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant about 16 miles northwest of Denver. Rocky Flats is the nation's only producer of plutonium "triggers" for nuclear weapons...