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...Lieutenant Governor Martha Layne Collins, 46, will be the Democrats' highest elected female official. A former home-economics teacher, she soundly beat State Senator Jim Bunning, 52, a former major league pitcher. Neither candidate had much administrative experience, and neither focused very clearly on state issues such as acid rain and the decline of the coal industry. Collins only tepidly supports the Equal Rights Amendment. Bunning came off as an unimaginative conservative...
...reservoir, which provides the gravity flow for Cambridge, is "susceptible to acid rain, and junk being thrown into it, and bird droppings," said Francis H. Duehay '55, Chairman of the Cambridge City Council's environment committee...
Andropov's blast certainly killed any remaining slim chance that the NATO-backed deployment of U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles in Europe will not begin, as scheduled, in December. Once that happens, the Administration's entire arms control philosophy will face an acid test. Either the new U.S. missile presence will pressure the Soviets to bargain more seriously in Geneva, as the Administration has long predicted they would, or the U.S.S.R. will carry out its threats to employ "countermeasures"-and the superpower arms race will be off and running anew...
...Administrator Anne Burford, who was testifying before another House subcommittee. She was confronted with a charge that 15 EPA officials had told congressional probers that they believed Burford was playing partisan politics last year when she delayed announcing a $6 million cleanup grant for California's Stringfellow acid pits. Burford denied the accusation. Her former chief of staff, John Daniel, testified that officials of the President's OMB pressured the EPA to consider industry costs before implementing regulations, even in cases where EPA is barred by law from weighing such considerations. Daniel also claimed that OMB forwarded some...
...refurbish EPA's standing, Ruckelshaus, who took over the agency last March, is urging the Reagan Administration to get quickly behind a new policy to control acid rain. Previously Reaganites have supported only "more study" of the subject. But Ruckelshaus has recommended a plan to reduce sulfur emissions by 4 million to 5 million tons a year, mainly in the Northeast. To comply with this proposal would cost between $1.5 billion and $2.5 billion...