Word: bans
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...argued in favor of continuing ABM research, but opposed any appropriations for actual hardware and weaponry. New Hampshire Democrat Thomas Mclntyre put in an amendment allowing deployment of radar and electronic gear at the first two proposed ABM sites in North Dakota and Montana. However, the Mclntyre plan would ban manufacture or installation of the actual Spartan and Sprint ABM missiles for at least a year...
Though a rank novice at horse racing, Veeck, 55, is already shaking up the Establishment. Astonished that the average age of the racing fan is 52, he went to Superior Court and in June won a decision reversing the Massachusetts Racing Commission's ban on children at the track. "I may not know much about horses," said Veeck, "but I do know that we've got to get the young ones in to develop new players." Besides, says Veeck, the father of nine: "Why shouldn't kids be able to see what their...
...over the mosquitoes that carry malaria has undoubtedly spared millions of people from death and debilitating infection. Equally potent in saving crops, it has almost doubled the yield from U.S. cotton fields in the past two decades by controlling the boll weevil. Even the Swedes, who have decided to ban the chemical, readily acknowledge its effectiveness. In 1948 they awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry to Swiss Chemist Paul Müller for his discovery of its "miraculous" capacity for destroying insects...
...also in trouble within the states. Arizona has already banned DDT spraying. Michigan recently imposed a similar ban after the FDA condemned some 700,000 coho salmon from Lake Michigan because they had unacceptably high concentrations of DDT. Stringent controls are now being considered in the states of Massachusetts, New York and Wisconsin...
Europeans have taken even more decisive action. Following discovery of the chemicals in their herring catch, the Swedes ordered a two-year ban on DDT, as well as the related pesticides lindane, aldrin and dieldrin. The Netherlands decided to stop using DDT. So did Denmark. West Germany limits spraying so severely that only 192 tons of the substance were used throughout the country last year. France and Britain are keeping a watch on pesticide levels within their borders. The Russians, too, are concerned, as Premier Aleksei Kosygin indicated when he offered to join with the Swedes in cleaning up what...