If anyone said we were in the radio business, it wouldn't be someone from our company. We're not in the business of providing news and information. We're not in the business of providing well-researched music. We're simply in the business of selling our customers products.
-- Lowry Mays, CEO of Clear Channel (which owns over 1000 radio and TV stations in the US) bluntly talking to Fortune magazine
1961 Catholic worker activists defy laws by refusing to leave City Hall Park in Manhattan during nuclear civil defense drill.
1977 Mothers hold first rally for the disappeared at Plaza de la Maya, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1979 284 arrested for blocking Rocky Flats, CO nuclear weapons production plant.
1987 Benjamin Linder, a volunteer engineer from Seattle, is murdered by U.S.-sponsored Contras (characterized by then-Pres. Reagan as "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers") while working on a hydroelectric project in rural Nicaragua. Many of Reagan's Contra-supporting staffpeople have returned to office under George W. Bush, Jr.
