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...number of arrests was the second highest of the many demonstrations that have been held at the plant, which has been a focal point for the anti-nuclear movement since construction began 13 years ago. Previously, more than 2,500 arrests had been made, including...
Students in 1964 were concerned with lengthening the number of hours they were allowed to spend with members of the opposite sex in the privacy of their own rooms, but few could appreciate the fact that only a decade earlier men and women were not allowed to enter dormitories of the opposite...
...College attacked the sexuality of youth as psychiatrically and morally harmful. Officials cried that "trouble has arisen because what was once considered a pleasant privilege has now, for a growing number of students, come to be considered a license to use the College rooms for wild parties or for sexual intercourse," and they said that sexual intercourse, before college graduation, could be mentally harmful...
...word used by a number of his own advisers, Gorbachev was "radicalized" by the experience of trying to improve the system. The result, two months ago, was a genuine choice for voters in the election to the new Congress of People's Deputies. Numerous standard-bearers of the old order were defeated, including some who ran unopposed (they gathered too few votes to qualify for election). A prominent Soviet historian, Leonid Batkin, asserts that "the Communist Party lost as an institution. Communists won not because they were Communists but despite being Communists." The insurgents suffered a setback in last week...
...called for international cooperation in monitoring catches on the open seas and enforcing fishing constraints. The U.S. and Japan later reached an agreement under which 32 U.S. observers would go aboard 460 Japanese squid-catching vessels to determine their fishing locations and count the number of sea creatures unintentionally killed by their nets. But after U.S. diplomats had worked out the arrangement, National Marine Fisheries Service officials declared it to be insufficiently stringent and called for revisions. Last week Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher told the State Department that the pact was unacceptable and would have to be renegotiated. Japan, however...