British Premier presented with 128,770 signatures of persons refusing war service. U.N. Declaration on the Rights of the Disabled. Start of Intifada for Palestinian Independence. NATO deploys cruise and Pershing missiles across Europe.
Annual protests follow.
Denmark recognizes right to conscientious objection to military service. U.N. adopts Nuclear Freeze resolution. Birth of Margaret Mead, radical anthropologist. U.S. Congress passes first Clean Air Act. Against U.S. wishes, U.N. General Assembly approves treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.