Word: ante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story, spreads another sort of gray symbolically over all Italian life. The narrator is the editor of an antismog magazine called Purification, financed by an industrialist who is one of the guiltiest smog makers. Nothing might appear more hopeless than the quandary of an Italian couple in "The Argentine Ant," whose baby is overrun by marching ants, against whom all antidotes fail. But the minor characters of this crawly little fable -like Captain Brauni with his Rube Goldberg ant traps-have a jaunty energy that enables them to survive not only their plague but the plague of their author: dark...
...trouble was caused by the fire ant, an agricultural pest that entered the U.S. from South America about 50 years ago and is now considered a problem in most Southeastern states. The fire ant erects mounds on cleared land; like natural tank traps, the mounds foul farm machinery. Worse, the ant has a stinging bite that plagues farmers and city dwellers and can even kill small animals...
Sledgehammer v. Gnat. The Department of Agriculture is trying to banish the fire ant. But its latest plan for doing it is under sharp attack by three conservationist groups-the Environmental Defense Fund, the National Wildlife Federation and CLEAN (Committee for Leaving the Environment of America Natural). The Department's program calls for discharging 450 million pounds of a bait containing 1,350,000 lbs. of Mirex-a powerful chlorinated hydrocarbon-on 150 million acres of land in nine Southern states. In a suit filed in U.S. district court in Washington, D.C., "on behalf of all citizens...
...cause of cancer in mice. The National Marine Fisheries Service has demonstrated that in laboratory sea water, trace amounts of Mirex kill young shrimps and crabs. The conservationists also contend that the chemical will be discharged from aircraft on all surfaces that might be inhabited by fire ants, including streams, parks and playgrounds. As an alternative to airborne treatment, they suggest that the fire ant be curbed by spreading Mirex directly on the insects' mounds...
...Died. António de Oliveira Salazar, 81, dictator of Portugal for 40 years (see THE WORLD...