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Show Church joins nuclear free zone movement The First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City has voted to declare itself a nuclear-free zone. In taking this action the church joins 125 other Unitarian Universalist churches chur-ches and societies around the country and is following the leadership leader-ship of the Unitarian Universalist Association headquarters, located in Boston, which declared itself a nuclear-free zone in January 1986. A nuclear-free zone has been defined de-fined as a geographical area where "no nuclear weapons shall be produced, pro-duced, transported, stored, processed, pro-cessed, disposed of or detonated." This act is a symbolic statement of hope for a nuclear-free world and of opposition to policies which promote the production and proliferation pro-liferation of nuclear weapons. It is part of a world-wide, grassroots movement to reduce governments' reliance on these weapons. As such the church joins 17 countries and 2,840 communities which are currently participating in the movement and places itself among other peace advocates internationally. internation-ally. In order to fulfill the promise of this pledge, 32 church members are planning to travel to the nuclear test site outside of Las Vegas to join demonstrations there on March 1 1 and 12. They invite other individuals or congregations to join them. |