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Article: PEACE HISTORY; August 21-August 27
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- Michigan Quarterly Review
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- September 3, 2005
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Michigan Citizen
09-03-2005
August 22, 1971: FBI arrests twenty in Camden, New Jersey, and five in
Buffalo, New York, for attempting to steal and destroy draft records.
August 22, 1972: Majority-black but white-ruled Rhodesia is thrown out of
the Olympic Games with just four days to go before the opening ceremony in
Munich, Germany. African nations were demanding Rhodesia's expulsion on the
grounds the country was an illegal regime.
August 22, 1986: Kerr-McGee Corp. agrees to pay the estate of the late
Karen Silkwood $1.38 million, settling a 10-year-old nuclear contamination
lawsuit. Karen Silkwoodwas a worker and central whistle blower at a nuclear
power facility. She was killed November 13, ...