Word: nukes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stretched before it became Orwellian doublespeak? Milling about in the Dunkin' Donuts Parking Lot before the action began Saturday, we chuckled over William Loeb's propaganda in the Manchester Union Leader in which he denounced the protestors as violent anarchists. Anarchists maybe, but didn't the whole anti-nuke movement spring from civil disobedience and peaceful resistance in the tradition of Gandhi and Martin Luther King? Of course...
...making this reformulation? A handful of liberal theologians? Rifkin himself admits the change is virtually unnoticed. One spectacular example is Billy Graham's conversion from nuke-the-Russian-Antichrist-cold-warrior to disarmament-peacenik-one-worlder, but Graham knows he is in a very small minority. Is the Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship likely to abandon the profit margin for a few more trees and whales just because Rifkin thinks the charismatics should pick up this redefinition as their marching banner? If anything, the Pentecostal revival is a reaction against the new values, against social innovations and moral liberalizations...
...Mayor Robert Reid received high praise from the residents for coolly doing what he could to cope with the emergency. Today he is worried about what has happened to his town. Said he: "This used to be a pretty unified community. Now it's divided between pro-nuke and antinuke. There's a tension here you can cut with a knife...
Though there is some opposition to nuclear development-two weeks ago, 20,000 marchers and 15 sheep descended on Plogoff in western Brittany to symbolize the resistance of local farmers to plans for a reactor there-the pro-nuke momentum will be hard to break. A Harris poll conducted after the Three Mile Island accident indicated that 57% of Frenchmen supported their government's nuclear program. Still, Giscard is taking no chances that people might forget the advantages of the atom. Last month he announced a 15% electricity discount to anyone living near a nuclear plant...
...back is a Place version of Peking's democracy wall, a forum for more overtly political discussion. On the wall are a few brightly-covered anti-nuclear posters, which drew forth in response an article from a local newspaper on a group of women engineers who are pro-nuke and think many of the anti-nuke arguments are just a form of solar energy that is to say, hot air. In counter-response someone has circled a paragraph in the article that says how, despite the fact that these women were hired by public utilities financially wedded to the nuclear...