Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seven months ago, Wisconsin's Senator Gaylord Nelson casually suggested that all Americans set aside April 22 as a day for serious discussion of environmental problems. Since then, even he has been surprised by the response to the idea. "It is nothing short of incredible," says Nelson, noting that 1,500 college campuses and 10,000 schools were scheduled to participate in this week's nationwide teach...
Meanwhile, preparations continue for the national Environmental Teach-In. Conceived in the office of Senator Gaylord Nelson, blessed by HEW, the foundations, and the Urban Coalition, and augmented by liberals who had been frightened away from the angry rhetoric of the Panthers and the antiwar movement, the Environmental Teach-In presents a flashy, pre-pack-aged campaign which tells us that it is, of course in the interests of everyone (including the polluters) to clean up our smelly environment...
...April 22 teach-in is a vital first step," declared Sen. Nelson. "But after that day, we will also need well-organized, non-partisan, sustained political action nationwide to restore the quality of our environment. Americans must start now to take stands, aid candidates for office who support environmental programs, use every device within the political process to get action...
...bill by the margin of a single vote out of 150, adding one restriction: after 24 weeks of pregnancy (when the fetus may have be come viable) an abortion can be performed only to save the mother's life. The Senate quickly accepted that sensible change, and Governor Nelson Rockefeller said that he would sign the bill...
...Advantage. Goldberg and his gambit dominated the meeting, as he had the earlier stages of the competition. The former Labor Secretary, Supreme Court Associate Justice and United Nations Ambassador was acknowledged to be the best-known and probably the strongest Democrat available to run against Republican Incumbent Nelson Rockefeller. For months he had played hard to get. As he assumed various postures of noncandidacy, others crowded in. By convention time, there was a total of seven candidates...