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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Radioactive Leaks. Specifically, the committee and its seven co-plaintiffs (including the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and SANE) claim that the blast may trigger "a succession of earthquakes" (fault lines run from Alaska through Southern California), tsunamis or earthquake-produced tidal waves of "unpredictable size and direction," contaminate the surrounding ocean with radioactive materials and leak poisonous debris into the atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Round 2 at Amchitka | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

...Right Attitude. While Donovan is indelibly stamped as an Easterner, Thomas knows the home territory. He was editor and part owner of a Los Angeles suburban paper, the Sierra Madre News, before joining the Los Angeles Mirror in 1957. He was city editor when the Mirror was killed by the parent Times in 1962, and became metropolitan editor of the Times in 1965. Since then his young and talented local staff has won two Pulitzer Prizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Chandler's Change of Heart | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

...according to Karol, on very amicable terms with Fidel. Che hoped to single handedly open a second front of Latin America to bog doyn the American imperialist machine and ease the pressure on the Vietnamese. The slogan "one, two, three, many Vietnams," summarized the new strategy of adopting the Sierra Madre experience to all Latin American revolutions...

Author: By Tom Crane, | Title: CUBA'S WOES Fidel's Sugar- Ups and Downs of Revolution | 6/4/1971 | See Source »

...earmarked $10 million for foreign aid this year, and half of that will go to Africa. The program has been highly cost-effective in winning diplomatic friends, as indicated by Foreign Minister Abba Eban's scheduled trip this week to seven Black African countries (Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, the Congo, Cameroun and Kenya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Israel's Stake in Black Africa | 5/31/1971 | See Source »

...presumably about extra-curriculiar activities-we get, among other goodies, an article by a first-year B-School student about the unfulfilled promise of the Coop. The other "good things to do" are political campaigning for liberal congressmen, skiing, hitch-hiking, visiting the countryside (illustrated by third-rate Sierra Club-style photographs adorned with Whitman quotes), and the Hasty Pudding Show. This latter good thing is a perfect demonstration of Three Thirty Five's lack of editorial credibility and clarity. I, for one, don't feel that a drag show put on for half-dead alumni deserves space over...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Bad Things To Do Three Thirty Five | 5/21/1971 | See Source »

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