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...growing popularity of in-vitro fertilization, it was just a matter of time before a case like this one arose. During nine years of marriage, Junior Davis, 30, and his wife Mary Sue, 28, tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully to have a child. That experience led the couple six years ago to a fertility clinic in Knoxville, where eggs taken from Mrs. Davis were fertilized in a laboratory with her husband's semen...
Just a month ago George Bush, a life member of the National Rifle Association, told reporters he was "not about to" impose a ban on semiautomatic weapons. But even as he made that claim, the President was searching for ways to cope with the surge in semiautomatic sales. Advisers from Barbara Bush to Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates pleaded with the President to outlaw the guns. For several weeks Bush had discussed the semiautomatic-weapons dilemma with his friend Senator James McClure, an Idaho Republican and staunch gun-rights defender. The President was torn between wanting to protect...
...foreign imports of semiautomatics: from only 4,000 in 1986, requests jumped to 40,000 in 1987, to 44,000 in 1988. In just the first three months of this year, there were 113,732 requests from foreign importers to bring the weapons into the U.S. Two weeks ago, Higgins supplied William Bennett, the Administration's designated director of national drug policy, with the startling statistics...
...monitor food, including imports. Some foreign growers easily circumvent the process; produce from Mexico is often trundled across the border at Nogales, Ariz., on the inspector's day off. And the USDA last year fielded only 7,000 inspectors -- down from 10,000 eight years ago -- to examine the carcasses of nearly 120 million cows, pigs and horses and 5.6 billion chickens...
Government inspectors recently failed to pick up a major case of pesticide contamination in chickens in Arkansas. Heptachlor, a cancer-causing chemical, was banned for use in food more than a decade ago, but the EPA permits it to be sprayed on some grains. Earlier this year sorghum treated with the substance was sold as feed grain and given to the chickens. The problem was detected in routine lab tests performed by the Campbell Soup Co., which had purchased the poultry. As a result, 400,000 chickens have been destroyed in the past month...