Word: underground
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...situation got so bad that in March Mayor Edward Koch sent additional police underground to patrol subway trains between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. But the Magnificent 13 took up its underground patrols well before the mayor acted. The group's founder and leader is Curtis ("The Rock") Sliwa, 23, a night manager of the McDonald's restaurant at the corner of Broadway and 236th Street in The Bronx. Neatly turned out and ruggedly handsome, Sliwa became known as The Rock for his high school skill at brawling and an ability to go for days without sleep...
...days after Harrisburg, 35,000 West Germans protested plans to build an underground nuclear dump near Groleban in northern Germany. They began chanting "We All Live in Pennsylvania," and the slogan was soon picked up by demonstrators back in the U.S. Major demonstrations occurred in Japan, in Denmark, and in other nations. French saboteurs blew up millions of dollars worth of nuclear equipment destined for Iraq. The people of the industrialized world have begun turning against nuclear power, but their governments are wedded to the nuclear industry...
...nuclear fuel cycle. On those dates, thousands of Navajo and Pueblo Indians--joined by Chicano and Anglo supporters--physically and spiritually protested uranium mining on native lands. The demonstration occurred at Mt. Taylor, N.M., a sacred mountain to local natives and the site of a Gulf Oil-owned underground uranium mine--the deepest of its kind in the world. Beyond the implications of bringing 100 million pounds of uranium from deep within the earth to the surface, the people view this mine as an act of sacrilege and desecration...
...second big company to move into the area was Kerr McGee. In the mid-1950s, Kerr McGee discovered the uranium reserves of the Navajo Nation. Within a few years, the company had developed a series of underground uranium mines and a uranium mill at Shiprock, the major population center of the Navajo reservation. According to provisions of the BIA-negotiated lease, Kerr McGee held rights to the land "for as long as the ore is producing in payable quantities." The BIA viewed the mines as a welcome boost to the Navajo economy, providing jobs for a people plagued with unemployment...
...nuclear accident, Carter has reaffirmed his commitment to nuclear energy. With over 55 per cent of domestic uranium reserves and over one-third of all western low-sulphur coal located on Indian reservations, the native peoples will bear the brunt of Carter's energy policy. The land is leased, underground and strip mining commences, and people are relocated. The "Indian wars" are not over. In one year, according to Peter MacDonald, tribal chairman of the Navajo reservation, "The Navajo Nation exports enough energy resources to fuel the needs of the state of New Mexico for 32 years...