Word: pacificism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The conflict between old-line "radicals" and new-style "suits" has erupted openly in recent months as Greenpeace has suffered one public debacle after another. In the latest, activists sailed into the waters off Mururoa atoll early last month in a futile effort to get the French to halt resumption...
The Pacific disaster was preceded by one in the North Atlantic. In July daring commando actions by Greenpeace activists scuttled Shell Oil's plans to sink the storage platform Brent Spar. According to the triumphant activists, the campaign saved the sea from pollution by 5,000 tons of oil. Last...
Surrounded by the graying, slightly stooped heroes whose bravery saved the world from the terror of fascism half a century ago, President Clinton commemorated the end of World War II by speaking at the National Cemetery of the Pacific on September 9.
CHESTNUT HILL--The women's varsity field hockey team soundly defeated the University of California at Berkeley, 3-0, under the lights of Boston College's Alumni Stadium last night. It was the first time ever Harvard has played Cal (3-4, 3-1 North Pacific).
THE REAL DANGER LIES NOT IN TESTS LIKE France's in the South Pacific [WEAPONS, Sept. 18] but in the full-scale use of warheads, scattered around the globe in many places and poorly controlled, that could be allowed to fall into the wrong hands. Also more dangerous than bomb...