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...Navy contingency plans for a Middle East war. Details on the top-secret communications network used by all of the Armed Forces. The weaknesses of a Navy vessel that serves as the communications center for the entire Atlantic fleet. Those were only some of the secrets allegedly passed to Soviet agents by John Walker's Navy spy ring, federal prosecutors claimed last week. Summed up Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger: "For 20 years this flow of classified material went to the Soviets. It is a serious loss...
...Denver Grandmother Justine Merritt conceived the idea of a band of people encircling the Pentagon with a ribbon of peace. She began to ask those on her Christmas-card list to fashion cloth banners depicting things they could not bear to lose. The project attracted a national volunteer network, which produced 25,000 different banners, many with pictures of children or pets or sunsets. Tied together, the banners formed a ribbon that stretched 15 miles--long enough not only to encircle the Pentagon but also to cross the Potomac and wind around the Lincoln Memorial, the Capitol and the Ellipse...
...silhouettes were intended as reminders of the Hiroshima victims who, caught outdoors by the blast, were vaporized, leaving no trace except for profiles etched on Hiroshima sidewalks. The arresting images, usually created with plastic stencils and rollers dipped in whitewash, were the work of the International Shadow Project, a network of 10,000 volunteer painters in cities ranging from Penang, Malaysia, to Budapest, Hungary. Worldwide, some 300 project volunteers were arrested, but police in many areas chose to permit the effort. In New York, Landscape Artist Alan Gussow, who conceived the project, said he was "staggered" by the response...
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...three of the major networks rejected this public service TV announcement as too controversial. The booklet that is offered, The Facts, tells young people, "It's okay to say 'no,' " but that if they do have sex, then the pill and condom are the safest birth control methods. Network officials steer away from the topic of contraceptives, even in paid advertisements. Says George Schweitzer, a CBS vice president: "The proper forum for the discussion is in news and public affairs programs where there is a balanced format to present both sides...