Word: sites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...federal government announces the locations of its Peacekeeper Missiles, and there's one close to home: on the site of the old Burr Hall. Asked to comment, President Reagan says something about "the Kremlin on the Charles...
...Last week demonstrators were once again out in force in West Germany and Denmark. In Britain, 30,000 women joined hands to form a nine-mile "ring of peace" around a Royal Air Force base at Greenham Common, 50 miles west of London, that has been designated as a site for cruise missiles. There to record the scuffles between demonstrators and police was a Soviet television crew. Said a senior U.S. State Department official: "They are hoping that popular opposition will derail the INF talks, so they can get zero from the American side for free...
There are some noteworthy efforts to turn the interest back on. The N.S.F. conference last week took place at the site of one model program. Set in 145 rolling acres in Decatur, Ga., the Fernbank Science Center boasts a 65-acre nature forest, a 500-seat planetarium, a collection of dinosaurs and a 36-in. reflector telescope that has been used to track Apollo space missions. Students from all over the surrounding DeKalb County school district use the facility. Each quarter, for example, 60 ninth-graders are bused in for a nine-week program in which they study math, physics...
...outskirts of Denver, a storehouse of potential death sprawls across 27 sq. mi. of rolling prairie. It is the site of the U.S. Army's Rocky Mountain Arsenal, which produced weapons and chemical agents until 1969. It now harbors corroded canisters of mustard gas, lethal phosphorus wastes from incendiary bombs, unexploded rockets and mortar shells embedded in a former firing range, millions of cubic yards of soil peppered with pesticides and an abandoned five-story production plant contaminated with nerve gas. Two vast man-made lagoons, once used as dump pits for toxic chemical and biological wastes...
...informal meetings of finance ministers from the so-called Group of Five-the U.S., Britain, West Germany, France and Japan-have generally been hush-hush affairs. Rarely is the site or even the date of the gatherings revealed. But growing concern about the stability of global finance cast an unusual spotlight on last week's summit at a remote Tudor-style castle in Kronberg, West Germany...