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- NATION, Page 39American NotesCOLORADONuclear Confrontation
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- Sometimes the medium gets in the way of the message. Last
- week the Colorado chapter of Greenpeace unveiled an antinuclear
- billboard blitz near the idle Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant
- outside Denver -- and ran afoul of another environmental group:
- Citizens Against Billboards on Highway 93.
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- Greenpeace's six-month campaign features a series of garish
- Day-Glo-red posters. The signs on the northbound side of the
- highway depict a worker in a protective suit and gas mask, and
- the southbound versions show an exploding nuclear bomb. Until
- Greenpeace slapped its posters on the billboards, they had been
- blank for two years as a result of a successful boycott against
- local merchants who advertised on them. "It's not clear whether
- Greenpeace should be labeled environmental nitwits or
- environmental traitors," groused Tom Lustig, an attorney for
- the anti-billboard group. Countered Jason Salzman, a Greenpeace
- staff member: "If we don't stop the arms race, we'll be in no
- position to worry about billboards."
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