Word: pacificism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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A bitter environmental battle over logging in redwood groves turned deadly last week when Earth First activists challenged Pacific Lumber Co. loggers at work above Grizzly Creek in California's Humboldt County. Cat-and-mouse taunting between protesters and timber crews had gone on for years, but recent confrontations had...
By week's end no charges had been filed. Chain's death was both an accident and the darkest of ironies, because this environmental war was supposed to be over. Lawyers and legislators had stepped in to settle the dispute, but Pacific Lumber did not see fit to stop felling...
This ransom is a big one--and likely to be the benchmark for future environmental payoffs involving private timberland. In return for 3,500 acres of ancient redwoods in Humboldt County's Headwaters Grove, the largest old-growth tract still in private hands, and 4,000 acres of additional land...
With palms swaying under dreamy blue skies and the Pacific slapping at the nearby shore, it was as if a busload of Roseannes had wandered onto the Baywatch set. But that was precisely the point.
So the "first and finest American boy" now seemed, to many Americans, a Nazi fellow traveler, an anti-Semite, a virtual traitor. F.D.R. kept him out of the war until 1944, when Lindbergh went to the Pacific on an aviation fact-finding tour; he contrived to fly a number of...