Word: pacificism
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And Alan S. Manne '44-'43 found himself abruptly thrust into a position of responsibility aboard the Baltimore, a cruiser in the Pacific fleet.
Ulithi became a major supply point for Alliedforces in the Pacific, and was designated a fleetanchorage, Rubin says. Every kind of ship, fromaircraft carriers to transports, came there toreceive new supplies, he says.
December 7, 1941 The "day that will live in infamy." The U.S. Pacific fleet and air corps is decimated in the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
Two years later, in 1992, the logging firm defied state and federal regulations more directly. Over a frenzied Thanksgiving weekend of what environmentalists called "renegade logging," Pacific broke off negotiations with state officials and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and sent loggers into a prized old-growth stand called...
A federal-court lawsuit on the Owl Creek logging, due for trial in July, may determine how seriously logging firms must take endangered-species regulations. Mark Harris, a young lawyer for EPIC, which brought the suit, is bitter about Pacific Lumber and Maxxam. "They're hosing this county," he says...