Word: bays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investigating mismanagement at the Environmental Protection Agency, Midwest Regional Director Valdas Adamkus accused John Hernandez, EPA's acting administrator until he resigned last month, of allowing Dow Chemical Co. to censor the agency's 1981 draft report on dioxin contamination in Michigan, including two rivers and a bay near Dow's Midland plant. Particularly alarming to Adamkus was the deletion of one of the draft's conclusions that "Dow's discharge represented the major source, if not the only source, of [dioxin] contamination" in the waterways...
Nicaragua's concern was mirrored in some corridors on Capitol Hill. Congressman Michael D. Barnes of Maryland last week decried a "1980s version of the Bay of Pigs." Said he: "It appears that the U.S. is engaged in supporting a war in Latin America without discussing that involvement with the American people." Said another congressional source with privileged access to U.S. intelligence information: "We're concerned about the danger of a wider conflagration." At the same time, many members of Congress continue to support the Administration's efforts to curb Soviet influence in the hemisphere, even...
Breaking for lunch, Brown and Sprague retreat to the wheelhouse to sip coffee from a thermos bottle and eat oysters fresh from the bay. "Can't find anything better than these," says Brown as he dips an oyster into a potent sauce made of vinegar and red and black pepper...
...Drayden, Sprague and Brown admit they are depressed about the way things are going-but not enough to consider doing something else. Fishing, Brown explains, is simply in his blood: "We have a saying around here. 'If a child born in Maryland takes his first steps into the bay, he'll be a waterman.' Parents always say, 'Oh Lord, don't let my boy taste salt water...
...midweek the "fresh start" fizzled. Democratic Congressman James Scheuer, who heads one of the six congressional panels investigating the agency, charged that Hernandez personally intervened to allow Dow Chemical Co. to edit a July 1981 agency report about dioxin contamination of two rivers and a bay near its Midland, Mich., plant. EPA officials agreed to Dow's suggested deletions of critical passages linking the deadly poison to fertility problems and birth defects, as well as the conclusion that "Dow's discharge represented the major source, if not the only source, of [dioxin] contamination" in the waterways...