Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clear that the grounds of the long national debate over nuclear energy have now shifted drastically. For many years the foes of nuclear power, for all their protest rallies, "clamshell alliances" and sit-ins, were very much on the defensive. Their complaints about plant safety had lacked credibility; the exigencies of the nation's energy crisis were unarguable; the fragility and risk, to some degree inherent in many parts of an advanced industrial society, had a common-sense acceptance as inevitable. But the price of progress, like the price of anything, has a ceiling, and for the nuclear power industry...
...opposed the building of the plant from its start. They failed to prevent Unit 1 from being placed in operation in 1974. When construction of Unit 2 began in 1970, the opponents renewed their fight, but to no avail. Some 100 people from the Goldsboro area rallied in protest on May 31, 1977, and released balloons into the air that carried tags advising any finder: FALLOUT FROM A NUCLEAR ACCIDENT MAY TRAVEL THIS FAR. Chauncey R. Kepford, a leader of the local protesters, warned more than a year ago before the NRC appeal panel: "Unit 2 is an accident just...
...tolling of the bells mingled with the shouted protests of Arab demonstrators cordoned in a corner of Lafayette Square by dozens of helmeted foot and mounted police. "Down with the treaty!" screamed the determined but orderly band. "Sadat is a traitor!" The chants were more audible to the sensitive TV microphones than to the live audience, and Walter Cronkite complained mildly to the world. Carter wrinkled his brow for a few minutes. The shouted dissents soon were muffled in the city sounds and largely forgotten. Protest is a way of life in Lafayette Square...
Twenty-five hundred demonstrators massed on Boston Common Sunday afternoon at a Clamshell Alliance-sponsored rally. The turnout for the protest--planned only two days before--showed the power of the Harrisburg incident, Diane Keefe, a Clamshell organizer, told the crowd...
...coalition of students and faculty members sponsored a boycott of brunch at North House one Sunday in February to protest Holcombe's suspension. Only 23 of the 300 students who normally eat brunch ate in the dining hall that morning...