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...decision to relocate residents of New York's contaminated Love Canal area, at a cost of $15 million, was initially funded by that state...
Jolted by the horror of New York's Love Canal and other revelations of chemical poisons seeping into America's earth and water, Congress three years ago created a $1.6 billion "Superfund" for cleaning up hazardous wastes. Drawing on contributions from chemical and oil companies, with costs to be recouped from violators, the measure was hailed as an important beginning in coping with the worst public health threat of the 1980s. It gave the Environmental Protection Agency the money and authority to purge the toxic dumps environmentalists called "ticking time bombs...
Large-scale development projects are planned or underway in Porter and Kendall Squares on Mass Ave and University Place, Lechmere Canal, and Alewife the end of the current MBIA Red line extension...
...point he said. We were facing a genuinely severe crisis of truly historic magnitude [in Iran] but had scored successes in normalization of relations with China the Camp David peace accord and the Panama Canal Treaties...
...case became an instant cause célèbre last week among irate feminists, who say police are harassing Foat because of her politics but offer no evidence to support their charge. In 1965, according to Louisiana police, Foat lured Buenos Aires Visitor Moises Chayo out of a Canal Street cocktail lounge where she worked as a waitress and drove him to a deserted road outside the city. Police allege that Foat and her then husband, John Sidote, a bouncer at the lounge who had been hiding in the trunk, bludgeoned Chayo to death with a tire iron...