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At the fourth convention of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, which met in St. Louis in June 1983, supporters of the nuclear freeze founded Freeze Voter '84, an independent Political Action Committee (PAC). In response to the growing threat of nuclear war and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the PAC's main goal was to "elect a President and Congress who will enact a nuclear weapons Freeze between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. The Committee [will] achieve this goal through the electoral process." At the time of the PAC's inception, the elections were only 18 months away. It had no operating budget, no office, no staff, no press lists, and no network of politically savvy volunteers. This picture changed quickly....
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Whatcom County Nuclear Arms Freeze records document the activities of this local branch of the national anti-nuclear proliferation organization that was active in the early to mid 1980s. Material includes newsletters, newspaper clippings, information regarding the pairing relationship with Bellingham's sister city, Nakhodka USSR, as well as informational articles that pertain to nuclear weapons.
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In 1980 Forsberg wrote the "Call to Halt the Nuclear Arms Race," the four-page manifesto that launched the national Nuclear Weapon Freeze Campaign. After founding the Freeze Clearinghouse, she co-chaired the Freeze Campaign’s National Advisory Board in 1980–1984.
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When the bilateral nuclear freeze movement became a national reality, it was natural for Willens to chair the campaign in California. He raised millions of dollars in support of the campaign, coordinated the collection of signatures needed to put the freeze initiative on the California ballot, and generally lobbied for support among Californiaís voters. On November 2, 1982, his efforts were rewarded with success.
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Included in the accession of Freeze Voter papers, was a box related to the work of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. These were the 1982-1984 files of Chip Reynolds, who was on the staff there at that time. A small amount of primary material (that which includes notes taken by Chip Reynolds at meetings and a few letters) has been sent to the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri (St. Louis) to be included in their NWFC collection; the rest was discarded.
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Finding on the paper's March 7, 1983 editorial The Council finds the March 7 editorial on the freeze movement to be well within the bounds of acceptable editorial opinion. The newspaper is entitled to express whatever opinions it likes in editorials, as long as those opinions are anchored in facts. In this case, the paper did not go beyond the facts. This part of the complaint is not upheld.
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