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...unanimous votes the committee approved resolutions that seek to force Mobil and Southern Oil Company of California to adopt the Tutu Resolutions, a set of guidelines similar in form to but significantly border than, the Sullivan Principles...
...Canada and nine European nations* signed an agreement to reduce the sulfur dioxide that spews forth from industrial plants, a major cause of acid rain, by at least 30% before 1993. The "30% club," as the group was quickly dubbed, hopes to pressure other nations, principally the U.S., to adopt similar controls. Said Canadian Environment Minister Charles Caccia: "You can't continue to dump on us the garbage that you are producing on your own property...
Officially, the Federal Government has neither rejected nor endorsed the A.H.A. dietary recommendations, nor has it taken a position on whether foodmakers should adopt more candid labeling. Since 1980, the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services have published a brochure offering Americans the following general recommendation: "Avoid too much fat, saturated fat and cholesterol." Throughout this year, officials of both departments are meeting with scientists to discuss whether or not this recommendation should be made more stringent and specific, in light of the N.H.L.B.I. findings. "The time has come for the Federal Government to make some pronouncement...
...serious doctrinal error. Ratzinger concedes that the movement might never have arisen if the church had been more aggressive in attacking oppression. However, he firmly rejects the approach of liberation theologians who, he says, use Marxism to interpret the Bible in their own way and who believe they can adopt Marxism's techniques without its atheism. He accuses such writer-priests as Gustavo Gutierrez of Peru and Jon Sobrino of El Salvador of transforming spiritual concepts into political ones...
...exports made their recommendations at a time when Massachusetts is holding public hearings to decide whether to adopt permanent limits on the amount of EDB allowed to foods. EDB became an important health issue last month when checks found supermarket goods with EDB levels as high as 2000 parts per billion, and the Commonwealth responded by imposing a temporary limit of one part per billion...