Word: antinuclear
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Inside Hamburg's ultramodern Congress Center, delegates to the seventh conference of the Greens, West Germany's amalgam of antinuclear protesters, peace demonstrators and environmentalists, largely ignored one of the many slogans on the banners: WE GREENS MUST STICK TOGETHER. So far apart were the party's two factions-the fundamentalists, who remain faithful to the party's nonpolitical roots, and the realists, who want to have an impact on national policy-that the conference nearly split the party. At issue: whether to forge a coalition with the left-leaning Social Democratic Party...
Despite that disclaimer, Reagan's critics wonder whether the President's apparent belief in a particular biblical scenario for the end of the world means that he might consider nuclear war a divine instrument. Accordingly, more than 100 religious figures, many from the antinuclear left (among them the Rev. William Sloane Coffin and Pacifist Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Gumbleton), held a Washington press conference last week to declare it "profoundly disturbing" that high political leaders "might identify with extremists who believe that nuclear war is inevitable and imminent." They also attacked the religious right for supposedly believing "that...
...nuclear threat will serve to galvanize political actions against armaments. This line of research is not new--witness the studies in the early '60s by Escalona and Schwebel--but as with their colleagues, it experienced a resurgence in the late '70s along with the rise of a grassroots antinuclear movement...
...only one suddenly to discover the wall separating church and state as soon as Ronald Reagan and his Evangelical friends began climbing over it. Liberal churchmen and politicians, who for years had nothing but praise for the church's role in the civil rights, antiwar and, most recently, antinuclear movements, have become strict First Amendment constructionists now that abortion and school prayer have turned up on someone else's political agenda...
...President's statements were intended to smother some of the prospects for discord at the summit, and they succeeded. Few of the issues that should have divided the seven leaders were allowed to disturb the tone of the meeting, even though, as the gathering concluded, about 150,000 antinuclear demonstrators marched in London to protest the presence of both Reagan and U.S.-built cruise missiles in Britain. By the end of the meeting, the leaders had summed up their deliberations in a blizzard of generally inoffensive documents: an economic communiqué, a "Declaration on Democratic Values," a statement...