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...Pacific protesters are not alone, however. Indeed, although France has conducted nuclear tests in the region of Mururoa yearly since 1966, it has never encountered the current level of outrage. The New Zealand government ordered a frigate, with a cabinet minister aboard, to steam into the test area. The World Health Organization called for an immediate halt to the French plans. Australian trade unions refused to handle French imports, from Camembert cheese to cosmetics; they also let 1,000 bags of mail from France pile up in the post offices. Somewhat ghoulishly, the girls at a Melbourne high school sent...
...lights in Holworthy had not begun to dim, and the heat still coursed through the steam tunnels. Harvard's personal energy crisis came instead from a tract of forest located near Cornwall...
...most significance on the University budget is a $2.2 million automation plan which Harvard is undertaking. Alarms, electronic security doors similar to Eliot's, closed circuit television for security areas and other types of automated security will all be centralized by a network of computer cables running through the steam tunnels which connect University buildings...
Naturally, any mention of automation in the electronics field immediately arouses suspicions about snooping and invasions of privacy. Already, local opposition to Harvard's installation of electronic cables in its steam tunnels has begun. People Against National Identity Cards (PANIC) led the opposition last month. The group convinced the City Council to ask Harvard to stop laying the cables at least temporarily so a hearing can be held...
...seven years since he began making headlines with exposes of unsafe cars, Ralph Nader has broadened his interests enough and launched enough consumer organizations to rival any corporate conglomerateur. Annoyed critics have kept hoping that he would either run out of steam or start boring the public. Instead, Nader supplied fresh evidence last week that he is as energetic, and as capable of enlisting new allies, as ever...