Word: zeros
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Reagan's embrace of the "zero option" on intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe and his Caribbean Basin Initiative of increased aid, trade and investment have won applause from friendly nations. But even these initiatives came late, in response to the pressure of events, and they are far from outweighing the situations that have been allowed to drift. Part of the problem is Haig. The Secretary has always swung between a cool, unflappable demeanor and irascible outbursts. Strangely, even as he has overcome most of his rivals for pre-eminence in foreign policy, the brittle side of his character...
...Ground Zero Week features a flurry of speeches and happenings...
These and hundreds of other improbable events, along with scores of more predictable demonstrations in places like Palo Alto, Calif., and Boston, were part of the largest collective outpouring to date of ordinary Americans' worries about the prospect of nuclear conflict. Ground Zero Week, a seven-day marathon of films and sober teach-ins, performances and lectures, was designed to illuminate issues of nuclear strategy and, more pointedly, the ultimate horror of nu clear war. It was conceived and led by Roger Molander, 41, until last year an expert on strategic arms limitation for the National Security Council...
...Ground Zero Week did not feature the kind of emotional mass spectacles that typify the European peace movement, which is largely a creation of pacifists and the political left. Nor did Ground Zero's organizers want any chanting hordes. "If we had a rally with 100,000 people," explained Molander, "very few of them would know more about nuclear war at the end of the rally than at the beginning. I want people to know exactly what the dangers are, because they will be stunned that no one is doing anything about it, and they will be moved...
This deliberately low-key approach produced turnouts in some cities that obviously disappointed the nuclear consciousness raisers. Complained Ground Zero Volunteer Kathleen Conkling of her Tulane University classmates in New Orleans: "This campus is apathetic." Less blase were 250 students at Atlanta's Emory University, who rallied on a chilly night to hear an eyewitness account of the Hiroshima bomb's aftermath. In a campus referendum at Brown University in Providence, 96% of the faculty, staff and student body approved a mutual U.S.-Soviet weapons freeze...