Word: shuts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fiery, articulate black priest named George A. Stallings Jr., fed up with the church's treatment of blacks, plans to defy James Cardinal Hickey this week by inaugurating his own independent African- American Catholic Congregation. In Detroit, black resentment is aimed at Edmund Cardinal Szoka, who last week finally shut down 21 of the city's 114 parishes, mostly in black neighborhoods, with nine others soon to follow. The action came despite angry protests and eleventh-hour courtroom maneuvers by both black and white parishioners...
...things, a new rail link between Soviet Turkmenistan and the northern Iranian city of Mashhad, which would help fulfill a longtime Moscow goal of greater access to the Persian Gulf. There were discussions, but no final accord, on reopening a gas pipeline from Iran to Soviet Transcaucasia, which was shut down in 1980. Moscow also announced that it would aid Iran in "strengthening ((its)) defense capability," but provided no details. The U.S. has made clear its opposition to large-scale shipments of Soviet arms to Iran; any such supplies would be viewed with even greater alarm by Iraq, which...
...prophesied in Scripture, but the end has come. Ten years after the $ Rev. Jerry Falwell zoomed into the right lane of national politics, the Moral Majority is being shut down. Come August, the organization, whose gospel blended Fundamentalist theology and ultra-conservative politics, will close its Washington office. Falwell will devote himself to two Lynchburg, Va., enterprises, the Thomas Road Baptist Church and Liberty University. Ironically, Falwell made the announcement in a city that symbolizes the sins the Moral Majority inveighed against: Las Vegas...
...decades of the nation's fuming debate over nuclear power, opponents had never spoken with such indubitable authority as Sacramento voters did last week. They became the first ever to vote, by a solid 53.4%, to shut down a functioning nuclear power plant. The decision, in a special referendum, put an end to the operations of the 15-year-old Rancho Seco facility owned by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District. Within twelve hours after the polls closed, SMUD directors, who had pledged in advance to abide by the decision, had started shutting down the plant 25 miles southeast of California...
...economy, desultory even in the best of times, is now virtually shut ! down. Automobile, tire and auto-parts production have come to a stop. Ranchers have halted delivery of cattle because they are being paid with uncashable checks. The government cannot print money fast enough, so a severe cash shortage has prompted bank closings. Because the austral has lost 90% of its value since February, most people try to conduct their business in U.S. dollars, although it is now illegal to do so. According to private estimates, what is left of the economy runs on $500 million worth of austral...