Word: pronuclear
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...imperative, he insists. Neither right nor left has met the problem square on; it will take, he says, a realist unswayed by the dogma of free enterprise or the hypnosis of absolutist environmentalism. And perhaps, in this case, he is right; at any rate, he is credible, and his pronuclear argument is sounder than most...
Reagan's opponents and the press term him a conservative ideologue. They readily discuss his pronuclear stance, his attitude toward the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II) and his programs to end inflation. But they remain strangely silent about his age. The Republican debate in Iowa produced jokes and jabs about his age, but the participants never seriously addressed the possibility of a 70-year-old president. Reagan's age should be as critical a factor in his candidacy as his suggestions about American foreign policy...
...regulating it. After taking a seemingly strong stand against the Clinch River experimental breeder reactor, Carter proposed that Congress explore the possibility of alternative breeders. Predictably, Congress voted to appropriate funds for the new breeders and for Clinch River. Although heavy pressure form antinuclear groups, among others, forced rabidly pronuclear James Schlesinger out of his cabinet post as Secretary of Energy, his replacement, Charles Duncan, former president of Coca Cola and once deputy chief of the Defense Department, maintains an equally hardline pronuclear stance...
NUCLEAR ENERGY-SAFER THAN SEX. That claim, emblazoned on T shirts, was one of the few light slogans on display in the streets of Manchester, N.H., last week. The otherwise earnest and orderly demonstration was the response of pronuclear forces to the 2,000 youthful environmentalists who last May staged a well-publicized occupation of the site designated for the long-delayed Seabrook nuclear power plant on the New Hampshire coast. More than half were arrested and held in custody, but the police had nothing to do but direct traffic when their opponents came to town. Pointedly minding their manners...