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Fearing a farm disaster, California begins aerial spraying...
Facing a quarantine, California orders aerial spraying...
...suit by California's attorney general to upset local bans on aerial spraying proclaimed that "a true state of emergency now exists...
...farmers argue that there is only one way the state can end the Medfly explosion: by bombarding infested areas from the air with a pesticide, Malathion. President Reagan's Agriculture Secretary, John Block, agrees, and his department threatened to quarantine all California produce susceptible to infestation unless aerial spraying was immediately approved. But residents of fly-plagued Santa Clara County, which includes the high-income communities of Silicon Valley, south of San Francisco, have vehemently opposed that approach. Noting that Malathion is suspected by some scientists of causing cancer and birth defects, they raised protest placards at town meetings...
...Brown, who is expected to run for the U.S. Senate next year, clearly did not relish the idea of offending his environmentalist constituency. At midweek he ignored the recommendation of his own Medfly advisory committee and refused to allow aerial spraying. Brown explained that he did not want Californians "waking up in the middle of the night to those helicopters spraying the garden, the street light, the roof, the child's bicycle, the swimming pool and everything else...