Word: siting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...injured nine others during an antiwar protest seven years ago. Last week about 100 activists stepped up their demonstrations against the ground breaking for a $6 million gymnasium annex to be built only 40 to 60 yards from the area where the shootings took place. Said one protester: "This site should not be desecrated...
...spoke to protest rallies. In May 200 demonstrators staged a campus march, and some of them pitched tents on the famous hill. They vowed to stay until the bulldozers pushed them out. So far the university's trustees have reject ed the protesters' demands to pick another site. At week's end retiring President Glenn Olds ordered the eviction of the 50 to 100 tent dwellers, many of whom are not students. They planned to resist...
...university defends its construction as necessary to meet federal requirements for women's athletic facilities, and claims that they can be built at least expense at the controversial site. Demonstrators vow to continue their opposition if construction starts. Though there has been no great swell of support from the 7,000 students now on campus, Robert Hart, a protest leader, predicts: "We'll have pickets outside the construction fence. This will go on." For his part, President Olds insists: "Whatever we do, we will not risk any violence...
...emblazoned on T shirts, was one of the few light slogans on display in the streets of Manchester, N.H., last week. The otherwise earnest and orderly demonstration was the response of pronuclear forces to the 2,000 youthful environmentalists who last May staged a well-publicized occupation of the site designated for the long-delayed Seabrook nuclear power plant on the New Hampshire coast. More than half were arrested and held in custody, but the police had nothing to do but direct traffic when their opponents came to town. Pointedly minding their manners, the 3,000 marchers demanded that work...
...hardhats may have company. The anti-Seabrook Clamshell Alliance, which led the May invasion of the plant site, is already planning future marches. Other environmental groups continue to oppose the facility in the courts and before the federal regulatory agencies that must approve construction. Last month Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Douglas Costle cleared one hurdle by overturning a regional official's ruling that the water-discharge system was unacceptable. Promises Clamshell Spokesman Harvey Wasserman: "We're not going to let the plant be built. Our survival depends upon it." Those who last week took to the streets...