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...Next step, the United States took a compilation of reports, about which it made no statements as to the accuracy, but simply said these were reports of chemical weapons use, to the United Nations and said we believe a multilateral investigation is necessary. And the United Nations, in the autumn of 1980 mandated a four-member panel to do an investigation. That investigation that demanded of that investigatory panel was renewed in the autumn of 1981. Significantly, none of the countries in which the chemical warfare was reported, Laos, Cambodia, Afghanistan, were admitted to that UN panel or had access...
...week long, warmup rallies rolled across West Germany with a precision that seemed incongruous for protesters so long nourished on spontaneous outbursts. The hottest week of the long-awaited, carefully organized hot autumn of antimissile protest began on a decorous enough note. On Sunday, hundreds of Protestant and Roman Catholic churches devoted services to the cause of peace and the evil of nuclear weapons, particularly the 108 U.S.-made Pershing II and 464 cruise missiles scheduled to be deployed in Western Europe. Later in the week feminists and women pacifists, many of them in mourning clothes, marched through half...
...showed, the peace movement may be overly emotional and at times ill-informed, but it has given many West Europeans the notion that they have a right to shape those decisions and a belief that they know enough about the issues to make their views relevant. Long after the autumn of protest has turned to the winter of deployment, that notion is likely to endure...
...base. At one point, a military vehicle was accosted by demonstrators who scrawled PIGS and NO WAR on its side. Some 250 activists were dragged away, and water cannons were turned on hundreds more. There were few injuries, however, and the formal beginning of Western Europe's "hot autumn" of antimissile protests was relatively peaceful. Not many Europeans were convinced that the antimissile campaign would stay that...
Morgan made the last out, a gentle streamer to second base. Baltimore was within one game of the championship. Of Perez and Morgan and Rose, Phillies Coach Dave Bristol had said, "Their leaves don't fall off in the autumn," but it was a coming-of-winter...