Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four-day foray into the salt flats of the Spanish Sahara (TIME, Nov. 17), Morocco's 350,000 "peace marchers" were loaded into trucks last week and driven back to tent camps at Tarfaya, 21 miles north of the Sahara border. The marchers, never told of the international uproar their crusade had caused, were bewildered by the abrupt about-face. But they obediently played out their roles in one of the greatest anticlimaxes in recent history...
...been six years since the Forest Service revealed its plans; the uproar over Mineral King's proposed fate has long subsided. Many who once railed against the resort have forgotten the issue. In fact, overall public enthusiasm for protecting America's air, water and other natural resources has fizzled. The focus of the environmental movement has shifted from mass action and mass awareness of Earth Day (1970) to a low-profile pattern of political and legal efforts by underfunded environmental organizations...
...such a staying game would almost surely set off a political uproar, much as did Earl Warren's abortive effort to resign before Richard Nixon took office. "With these politicians looking for issues, it could become a maelstrom," says one court hand. "I'm dreading...
...cruel dilemma over busing has caused parents, both black and white, to raise a series of legitimate questions to which there are no easy answers: Is forced busing to balance schools racially worth all the uproar? Does it produce better schooling for disadvantaged black youngsters and no loss for the white youngsters...
...marriage-minded homosexuals were trekking to Boulder, Colo., after Assistant District Attorney William Wise ruled that nothing in the state law prohibits gay marriages. "Who's it going to hurt?" he asked. Many heterosexuals saw the ruling as a mockery of marriage, and normally liberal Boulder was in an uproar over six legally sanctioned gay weddings. (One enraged cowboy tried marrying his horse in protest...