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Winona LaDuke '80-3 has spent the past two years trying to halt uranium mining on Indian reservations...
...calm," said the general. He went on to promise that his new government would be willing to sit down with Solidarity, the independent union federation, to examine those labor reforms that "the country can afford." At the same time, he warned that the government "has enough power to halt those who are striving for counterrevolution...
...even told his countrymen whether he intends to try for a second seven-year term. Yet France's presidential election was unmistakably under way last week. With a typically combative statement, Paris Mayor and neo-Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac, 48, formally announced his candidacy and pledged to halt the "process of degradation" that he blamed on France's present leadership. In the Paris suburb of Créteil ten days earlier, 361 Socialist delegates had gathered in a sports arena to name their 64-year-old leader, François Mitterrand, the party's official standardbearer, thus...
...quite. Patricia and Ron Zobel of Anchorage, both lawyers, felt that the legislation favored oldtimers ("sourdoughs") over newcomers ("cheechakos"), thus violating the equal protection clauses of the federal and state constitutions. Seeking a fairer allocation, they filed a suit that brought the giveaway to a dead halt. Predictably, cheechakos and sourdoughs alike turned on the Zobels with the fury of one of the state's fierce Taku winds...
Such dependence makes many Western observers uneasy. Only last fall, a Soviet trade official at the Hanover Fair in West Germany was heard to threaten to halt existing gas deliveries if the West Germans failed to be "cooperative" in opposing Western trade sanctions against the Soviet Union following its invasion of Afghanistan. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung recently wrote in an editorial that it would be wiser for West Germany to build four additional nuclear reactors, which would provide an equivalent amount of energy at the same price as the Soviet gas deal...