Word: siting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thieves sell such machines at bargain prices: a stolen $60,000 International crawler tractor was offered at $35,000 to one potential buyer, who became suspicious and called the cops. Usually this equipment is left on the job site when work crews head home. Watchmen are too expensive for many contractors, and the ones that are posted are easily overpowered by thieves. Says Hugh Goulding, vice president of Howell Tractor and Equipment Co., "The thieves simply winch it onto a lowboy trailer and drive it away...
Suddenly, a rumbling, thunderous crash rolled across the construction site, accompanied by screams. "The first thing I heard was concrete falling," said John Peppier, 38, a laborer who was working at the base of the tower. "I looked over my left shoulder and I could see the scaffolding falling. Then I could see people falling. Then, everything falling...
...Washington, the most intriguing aspect of the episode was the apparent sloppiness of Soviet air defenses on the Kola Peninsula, the site of a large naval base (at Murmansk) and important missile installations. The high-flying (35,000 ft.) Korean 707 should have been spotted by Soviet radar when it was as many as 500 miles offshore. Yet it not only flew unchallenged through the 200-mile-wide air defense zone that the Soviets maintain off their shores, but charged along for at least 18 minutes over Russian territory before fighters intercepted...
...would have refused to surrender to, say, an investigating committee of Congress, or a reactionary board of trustees, or a witch-hunting press? Did they not ask the law to close its eyes to actions they would never have defended had mobs come to the colleges from a construction site...
...real democratic basis of the occupation lies in the "affinity group" structure. Every occupier belongs to an affinity group of ten to fifteen people who train together. Each group has a medic, a media contact, two support people who stay off the site and make arrangements for food and communication, and a person who represents the group at decision-making meetings. For the June 24 occupation, Harvard students will be forming at least one affinity group...