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Nearly 100 people are expected to picket the Massachusetts State House Wednesday afternoon in protest against the construction in Framingham of the first state government bomb shelter in the United States. The picket is being organized by the Greater Boston Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy...
Present plans are for a series of demonstrations staged every Wednesday afternoon in an attempt to attract public concern. The group hopes to have a bill introduced in the legislature shortly which would revoke the funds for the shelter. Levin stated that he hoped the picketing this week would help swing Governor Volpe to the anti-shelter camp...
SANE opposes the construction of the shelter because it feels that such actions lead to a relaxation of efforts for disarmament. The group feels that the existence of an extensive shelter system would lull the country into a false sense of security "where there can be none...
Levin claims that the bill, which provides for a state appropriation of $1.2 million for the shelter, "slipped through" without being given adequate public attention. "Even the League of Women Voters missed...
...Soon he found that they followed rigid social customs that had the effect of holding the population down. At the head of a rabbit hierarchy is a muscular, middle-aged "queen doe" who occupies the best burrow in the center of the warren. She permits some of them to shelter in the warren, but when does of lower rank have their young, she forces them to dig small nest holes in distant parts of the enclosure, where they are exposed to predators and inclement weather. Few of the outcasts succeed in raising young to maturity...