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Davidon, Dennis Bernstein and Connie Blitt, Margaret Lauer, John F. Bordsen, George Leopold, Patrici
Chile, Then and Now STONY BROOK, NEW YORK It was Wednesday, January 25. Suzanne Kolb, an ecology student at the State University of New York, was on vacation in Chile, visiting friends from her...
...At the moment, the union and Grand Iron officials are far from a purchase agreement...
...A field near the downtown area will host the fifty-nine-foot rocket, which the city is to receive on a no-charge basis...
...asks McHenry, who is also the town's Pontiac-Buick dealer...
...The campaign was "based on the number of victims, the intensity of their suffering, and our ability to effect change," says Spira...
...Grand Iron is seeking "considerably more" for the plant than the union is offering, says Albert Alpern, company president...
...We're going to shoot.' A lot of the prisoners just fell to their knees and cried for their mothers, cried 'don't,' cried 'please,' cried 'listen.'" On this 1984 visit, Nano had hopeful stories to share...
...It's literally overkill," says Spira, who also set up the Coalition to Abolish the LD50...
...I can't imagine that the public would be interested in something that threatens their lives...
...A black-and-yellow car pulled up...
...He picks the issue that is likely to have the ripple effect...
...But Harrisonville will pay for its transportation, a deep concrete footing, and the surrounding display area...
...After approximately five hours, Kolb's abductors had her lie face-down on a mattress...
...It would have a tremendous future" if new equipment could be installed...
...A PMA official concedes that Spira was "instrumental" in prompting it to come out against the LD50 and notes that many pharmaceutical companies have recently dropped the test...
...But their optimism was dashed when they crossed the street...
...Then two men drove off with her...
...The trade group said the LD50 test "lacks justification...
...She took her Peace Corps duties seriously, working with a fishermen's cooperative and immersing herself in the community's problems...
...Standardized in 1927, it finds the amount of a substance needed to kill half the mice or rats in an experiment group...
...Carroll did not go to El Salvador to die, although he certainly knew that death was possible and was obviously willing to pay that ultimate price...
...The procedure is part of the forty-year-old Draize irritancy test, and Revlon alone experimented on 2,700 rabbits in 1978...
...When the car reached its destination, Kolb was taken blindfolded and handcuffed into a building where she was made to sit on the floor, legs straight in front of her, ankles bound with a metal strip...
...NEW ORLEANS When Ronald Reagan began to escalate U.S...
...If anything ever happens to me, you can do me one favor," Nano told his parents after the coup...
...The mayor has even asked the Air Force to deliver a deactivated Minute-man missile so it can be mounted near City Park as a tourist attraction...
...How Many Rabbits Does Revlon Blind for Beauty's Sake...
...They had freshmen and old professors," Nano told her...
...Iron Workers Forge a Buy-Out NEW YORK CITY Situated on ten acres just east of the gutted tenements of the South Bronx stands the Grand Iron Works...
...Once Nano invited Kolb to visit "the boys" with him...
...Why hide it...
...And under the growing pressure of mass demonstrations and the threat of an international boycott, Revlon agreed to contribute $750,000 for a three-year "crash program" of alternative research at Rockefeller University...
...Look, we're going to take off your blindfold, we're going to take your handcuffs off, and you're going to sit up nice and slow and make like a normal passenger," they told her...
...This would be a first in the Midwest—in the nation, maybe," boasts McHenry...
...George Leopold (George Leopold is a graduate student at the Columbia School of Journalism...
...Kolb and Nano were shoved in and the car sped off...
...They drove her there to pick up the rest of her belongings...
...Perhaps my greatest fear," he was to write from El Salvador, "is the prospect of wasting away on the sidelines, exiled from history, isolated from the processes which represent the possibility of human dignity...
...And union members from other locals have also contributed...
...While her captors were driving her to the airport, she wondered aloud whether she would miss it...
...That's what Carroll died for...
...they recently voted to kick in part of their pensions...
...They said, 'This is it...
...He was an internationalist who fought in the spirit of Che Guevara and Malcolm X," says his wife, Lavaun Ishee...
...Monument to a Minuteman HARRISONVILLE, MISSOURI Missile silos press within four miles of the city limits here, but rather than repudiate the missiles, the leaders of this community of 6,372 are embracing them...
...Ann Morrissett Davidon (Ann Morrissett Davidon is a free-lance writer in Haverford, Pennsylvania...
...She and Nano, a Chilean engineering student, were crossing a busy Valparaiso street to buy some tomatoes for lunch...
...This coalition, too, has met with success...
...On January 22, the Salva-doran guerrillas destroyed a coffee processing plant for Companero Carlos, Ishee's nom de guerre...
...Calavito predicts the iron workers could be back on the job in six to nine months...
...He runs Instruments for Research & Industry, which manufactures such innocuous laboratory products as "lead doughnuts" that prevent lab flasks from tipping over...
...He began to wonder, "Should I picket these organizations by refusing their purchase orders...
...Retired members of the local support the buy-out...
...We found that the company could be viable," says Katherine McNeil, an Interface staff associate...
...The place had been ransacked, and five men were in the house...
...In the 1950s he wrote for The Militant, the newspaper of the Socialist Workers Party, and in the 1960s he marched for civil rights...
...Seventy-five local residents participated as extras...
...Grand Iron officials claimed competition—from abroad and from nonunion shops in the South—forced the shutdown of the foundry, which produces structural steel for buildings, roads, and bridges...
...intervention...
...From time to time, someone would check her pulse and other vital signs...
...Remain dry-eyed in front of the authorities, with your heads held up high...
...They escorted her right up to the boarding ramp...
...On the dashboard of the car, she saw the Peace Corps identification card she had left at Nano's house...
...Lavaun Ishee has shelved her medical studies to become the southeast regional coordinator for the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES...
...In addition, "since we are not making a profit on those DoD [Department of Defense] funded orders," he says, "we aren't apprehensive about possible cutbacks in defense spending...
...He's outstanding as a tactician," Jim Mason of Agenda magazine says of Spira...
...At nineteen, he pushed on to Vancouver to work for the Liberation Support Movement, an organization that provided education and material support to Third World groups fighting repressive regimes...
...One main character in the movie was right outside Glenn's Drugs when the fictional blast went off...
...Missouri Senator Thomas Eagleton sent him a brochure about surplus equipment and told him whom to contact in the Air Force...
...The Coalition to Stop Draize Rabbit Blinding Tests, which Spira heads, began to pressure Revlon...
...The men and their families are enthusiastic about the project," says William Cola-vito, president of Local 455 of the Ironworkers Union that represents them...
...election...
...He believes the union could make the foundry "a going concern" once again by purchasing modern equipment, diversifying into other products, and motivating the workers with self-management...
...Spira and the coalition achieved a partial victory when Revlon agreed to reduce the numbers and dilute the intensity of the experiment...
...Below ran a photo of a pathetic rabbit, its eyes crudely bandaged...
...He told Kolb of mass protests in Santiago's streets, of widespread resistance against Pinochet...
...Lethal Dose 50 is a toxicity test that companies use to establish safety levels for consumer products...
...Suddenly, a young man wearing bluejeans and sneakers jumped at them, wrapped his legs around Nano's waist, and dragged him to the ground...
...They had hoped one day to help in the reconstruction efforts of a revolutionary government, perhaps in Angola...
...She is publicizing her husband's story in hopes of galvanizing opposition against U.S...
...A small boy on the corner watched what was happening with fear and hatred in his eyes...
...Patricia Lamiell (Patricia Lamiell is a community activist and writer based in New Orleans...
...military involvement in El Salvador in 1981, Carroll Ishee decided to leave his wife and daughter in New Orleans and join the guerrilla forces...
...There has been no basic investment in new equipment in more than thirty years," Colavito says...
...One came up behind Kolb, seized her by the throat, and wrenched her arm behind her back...
...The cigarette burns on his chest testified to the treatment he had received...
...The plant is idle now, but it won't be for long if its 125 laid-off workers can help it...
...Later she heard the sound of rattling sheet metal, designed to cover up noises and screams...
...We feel that since the silos are in the area, having our own Minuteman would be of interest to all the people who've never seen what's inside them...
...In the early 1960s, Conlan saw fellow Quakers picketing the very arms companies he was supplying...
...In all, Spira and his fellow activists have scored impressive victories: Revlon, a 20 per cent reduction in rabbits tested...
...He met Lavaun in Vancouver and they married four years later...
...Their captors spirited them away at breakneck speed...
...A Champion of Animal Rights SAN FRANCISCO Henry Spira is a fifty-seven-year-old former high school teacher who abandoned the classroom to devote his energies to a social issue often neglected by progressives: animal rights...
...No member disagreed, and "we've only received two letters from people opposing this," says the mayor...
...Last summer, McHenry revealed his brainstorm to the town council...
...After making the proper inquiries, McHenry was informed that Harrison-ville would receive a Minute-man as soon as one became available...
...Dennis Bernstein and Connie Butt (Dennis Bernstein is a playwright and producer for public radio...
...following the 1973 coup that brought General Augusto Pinochet to power...
...For the past century, Har-risonville's biggest tourist attraction has been Log Cabin Days, an annual celebration honoring the few structures that managed to survive the devastation the Civil War visited upon this border state...
...He understood: This is how people disappear...
...It would be truly educational, telling what a missile is all about...
...Suzanne Kolb, an ecology student at the State University of New York, was on vacation in Chile, visiting friends from her Peace Corps days...
...Following the attack, they announced that Ishee had died in combat last August...
...When Kolb first went to Chile with the Peace Corps in 1978, she was assigned to Caldera, a small fishing village on the coast...
...My theme was always the struggle between those in power and the powerless," he says...
...I just hope it works out," says Bob Winkleman, shop steward and nineteen-year employee of Grand Iron...
...In the wake of Revlon's decision, Avon and Bristol-Myers helped set up the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing...
...That's what I want...
...In 1980, they moved to New Orleans—she to study medicine, he to learn architecture...
...She is a member of CISPES...
...Other men joined in the assault...
...Sixty of them have already put up $4,300 each toward purchasing the eighty-year-old foundry...
...Still, the film has left the community apparently unruffled by concerns about nuclear war...
...Just before dawn, she was taken to a car parked outside for further interrogation about Nano's friends, about her own political activities, and about whom she had voted for in the last U.S...
...During her Peace Corps stint, the apolitical Kolb met Nano, who had been held in the Santiago stadium and was sent to a concentration camp Suzanne Kolb: An American disappears in Chile...
...Instruments for Research & Industry contributes about $1,000 a year to Abington Friends Meeting, which Conlan attends, and an additional thousand to such groups as the American Friends Service Committee and CARE...
...In fact, we welcome them...
...I'm not saying I'm for it or against so I'll just say, 'No comment,'" remarked pharmacist G.A...
...THE PROGRESSIVE / 17...
...Nano's condition and whereabouts are still unkown...
...Margaret Lauer (Margaret Lauer is assistant editor of Mother Jones magazine...
...I know that some folks aren't pleased about putting it on that spot—the park being right there and all—but I haven't heard a lot of comment," says Larry Pfautsch, news editor of the weekly Har-risonville Democrat-Missour-ian...
...Raised by integrationist parents in Mississippi, Ishee moved to Vermont in his teens and helped organize protests there against the war in Vietnam...
...The only word that comes to mind is 'obscene,'" protests Bert Provost, a staff member of the Kansas City Nuclear Weapons Freeze Coalition...
...Once in a while she heard a voice, and a defiant "No" would come occasionally from Nano in a separate room...
...Both are based in Middletown, New York...
...The company is asking "a ridiculous amount," says Frank Hernandez, the union's secretary-treasurer...
...The "Profits for Peace" policy "draws a rather arbitrary line," Conlan acknowledges, but it "demonstrates that one can draw a line in a gray area...
...The Food and Drug Administration, responding to Spira's group and the recommendation of the pharmaceutical companies, clarified its policy on LD50 last fall, informing firms that the test was not required...
...The point is to end the war...
...If Harrisonville's in favor of it, it's an indication of how emotionally out of touch they are with these weapons...
...For the past twenty years, Conlan has resolved this question with a compromise: He will not seek orders from arms makers, but if they come in, he will fill them, donating the profits to Quaker peace groups and other humanitarian causes...
...Glenn...
...I felt that some day there would be something identifying our community, and many businessmen and others here feel having a missile would be unique," says Mayor Howard McHenry, who originated the idea...
...Look, but don't look," Nano cautioned Kolb as they approached the unmarked burial site bedecked with flowers...
...Get your stuff together," they told her...
...They hope the $250,000 in risk capital will attract enough additional financing to enable them to buy the works...
...Ironically, The Day After was shot near Harrisonville, with several Harrisonville settings appearing in the television film...
...the lack of opposition to the Minuteman monument typifies the conservative nature of the town...
...To conduct prefeasibility studies and assist with the purchase of the plant, the union has been working with a New York-based nonprofit research organization, Interface...
...A Witness to History Carroll Ishee went to El Salvador to fight and die for his beliefs...
...But union members cite other factors...
...And on the morning they were kidnapped, they visited the university at Valparaiso, where they heard that political dissidents had won all the leadership positions in the student government...
...They had them all together—Socialists, Communists, Christian Democrats, anybody on the Left...
...Profits for Peace CHELTENHAM, PENNSYLVANIA Dan Conlan is a businessman and a Quaker...
...As she soon discovered, "the boys" were university students slaughtered by Pinochet's forces and buried in a mass grave outside the city of Copiato...
...Spira connects his current activism on animal rights to his previous political commitments...
...This might not seem like the stuff moral dilemmas are made of, but for a while Con-lan's conscience was torn by his work because some of his clients were armament manufacturers...
...But I'm not into glorifying or sensationalizing," says Ishee...
...Connie Blitt is a filmmaker and writer...
...The Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PMA) issued a policy statement last November stating that "government regulatory requirements and pharmaceutical research procedures should be revised so that fewer animals are used in drug safety evaluations...
...progress reported by Proctor & Gamble and Smith Kline French...
...People could come here and see it, maybe take a liking to the town, and maybe go up to the square...
...I saw a Minuteman at Cape Kennedy several years back, and noticed that it was one of the first things the busloads of school kids wanted to look at...
...Another such issue is LD50...
...In the United States, fifteen million animals a year are subjected to toxicity tests...
...They assured her they had called the airport and the plane was waiting for her...
...Spira placed the ad four years ago to protest how Revlon and other cosmetic manufacturers placed potentially hazardous substances into the eyes of unanesthetized rabbits...
...read the giant, triple-deck headline of an advertisement in The New York Times...
...John F. Bordsen (John F. Bordsen is a free-lance writer in Kansas City...
...Her plane home was scheduled to depart at any minute...
...When you are called to come down and pick up my body at the police station or army headquarters, make sure not to shed a single tear...
...He's forced us to reconsider how we do business on toxicity issues," says Robert Osterberg of the FDA's bureau of veterinarian medicine...
...Avon, a 33 per cent drop in all animals used...
Vol. 48 • April 1984 • No. 4
