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...that would leave little more than ashes and radiation where 350 million people now live. Says Mient-Jan Faber, 40, the lanky, jeans-clad leader of the Dutch Inter-Church Peace Council (I.K.V.), which serves as a model to anti-nuclear organizations elsewhere in Western Europe: "Arms control, the step-by-step approach, has not worked. Our overall goal?all nuclear weapons out of Europe?will be a long process, but it can begin here." Says Volkmar Deile, secretary of Action for Reconciliation, one of West Germany's most influential peace groups: "Talking to the superpowers about disarmament...
...gave the peace movement credit, somewhat dubiously, for pressuring the U.S. into setting a date for the resumption of arms talks with the Soviet Union. "The Chancellor sees threats where there are none," Eppler said. Like most West German peace crusaders, Eppler is opposed to unilateral disarmament, favoring a step-by-step process of limiting nuclear arms on both sides. Said Eppler: "We have reached a point where the confrontation of the superpowers in Europe could threaten the survival of the whole continent, especially the survival of West Germany." An even more pessimistic view was expressed by Volkmar...
Crimson: Why is this administration confident that, unlike in Vietnam, the U.S. will not be slowly drawn, step-by-step, into a situation in EI Salvador where it will either have to withdraw or escalate...
...China's economic work will be able to free itself from the age-old malady of seeking quick results. Instead it will base itself on actual economic conditions, putting the stress on practical results and step-by-step development." With these words, spoken before the standing committee of China's National People's Congress Feb. 28, Vice Premier Yao Yilin described a watershed decision by the country's economic planners. Specifically, Yao announced a drastic 13% cutback of the 1981 budget; capital construction, the hardest-hit sector, would be chopped almost in half. Peking...
...study of minority and women Faculty members is to have any effect at all, it will take a concerted effort by Faculty members to carry out the step-by-step procedures set forth in the report. Administrators should make sure departments follow the guidelines and take actions to correct a disgraceful situation that has been accepted as the status quo for too long...