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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The worst prospect for both U.S. business and strategic interests would be for hard-liners to win the power struggle and launch a massive crackdown, rounding up dissident students and workers by the tens of thousands and shipping them off to the Chinese Gulag, a little-known but long-established...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving The Connection | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

In all the decades of the nation's fuming debate over nuclear power, opponents had never spoken with such indubitable authority as Sacramento voters did last week. They became the first ever to vote, by a solid 53.4%, to shut down a functioning nuclear power plant. The decision, in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shutting Down Rancho Seco | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

Even faster than that, news of the vote by 40% of Sacramento's electorate spread fresh hope among the opponents of nuclear power all over the U.S. The development countered a bleak mood stirred up among antinukers recently by two Nuclear Regulatory Commission actions. In the first, the NRC issued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shutting Down Rancho Seco | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

In previous tests -- 14 referendums in ten states in the past 13 years -- debate turned primarily on purported threats to the safety of both people and the environment. Rancho Seco opponents, however, directly attacked the idea that has helped the nuclear industry win all earlier elections: the proposition that nuclear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shutting Down Rancho Seco | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

Paying heed to the cataclysmic outcome of that refusal, the Kremlin calibrated its response with great care. Early in the week, the Congress issued a timid resolution urging that "wisdom, sound reason and a balanced approach" prevail in China. Later, caution became less evident. "We hadn't expected this," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communism: Soviet Union Hard Lessons and Unhappy Citizens | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

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