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- <text id=90TT3159>
- <title>
- Nov. 26, 1990: American Notes:Colorado
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Nov. 26, 1990 The Junk Mail Explosion!
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 39
- American Notes
- COLORADO
- Nuclear Confrontation
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- <body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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