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Politics dampens crowd gathered at West Valley by Bradshaw Hovey Spectrum Staff Writer It has become customary in reporting anti-nuclear power demonstrations to write about the bright sunny weather and how the no-nulcers propose to use that power instead of dangerous and expensive nuclear energy. But on Saturday a steady gentle drizzle fell on the heads of anti-nuclear activists assembling on the crown of a gentle hill in a hayfield in Ashford Township 3S miles south of Buffalo. Woodlands in the distance, with the trees changing to the colors of autumn formed a border around the rally site. The voices of demonstrators arriving early for workshops and the noises of the yellow school buses which carried the demonstrators from all across upstate New York were muffled in the heavy skies and rural air. Beyond the hills a few miles away in West Valley, 600,000 gallons of toxic liquid radioactive wastes from nuclear power plants are stored. Political snacks Despite the bad weather the activists came, throughout the morning and early afternoon assembling near a giant-sized mock-up of a garbage can labeled “West Valley Nuclear Garbage.” The various constituent groups of the September 29th Coalition, official sponsor of the rally, set up tables to dispense their various literatures and to sell fruit, cider and baked goods. The variety of political snacks was far larger than the edible ones however. Groups ranging from the venerable Sierra Club to the Revolutionary Communist Party (not a member of the coalition) presented their respective routines. Also visible in the political stew were the Western New York Peace Center, NYPIRG, The New American Movement and various patches of the growing upstate New York anti-nuclear network. As is typical of coalition politics each group and each workshop leader offered a somewhat different analysis of—the nuclear question and sometimes different solutions. But the participants of all stripes agreed that the danger of nuclear wastes must be halted. Buchanan —Dennis R. Floss THREAT: Expressed at the rally was the fear that human IN SUPPORT: Two citizens concerned about the future of exposure to radioactive waste is a threat to human survival. Radioactive water safe energy and the effects of nuclear power on our children Genetic damage may be passed on from generation to The whole anti-nuke collection —the workshops, leaflctters, literature raise their placards at the West Valley rally, generation. —continued on page 2— Inside: Let the sun shine in—P. 7 / Buffalo in suds—P. 7 / The Independents—centerfold / Rah! Rah!—P. 13
