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...emergency center sits a tiny bronze trophy with a paper sign: "1st place, Times Beach, highest contamination of dioxin award for bravery." Many residents, reluctant to desert the town, plan to wait to see if the Government will provide relocation funds, as it did for the residents of Love Canal in Niagara Falls, N.Y., which was also polluted with dioxin. "I have no place else to go," said former Mayor Charles E. Yarbro. "Relocation and a second mortgage-I couldn't handle it. Nobody could...
This curious spectacle has occurred almost daily since July 1980, when digging began on black Africa's biggest current engineering project: the excavation of the Jonglei Canal in southern Sudan. Scheduled for completion in 1985, the canal will be one of the world's longest artificial waterways, stretching an imposing 220 miles...
...Democrats. Besides familiar stands (for tuition tax credits to help private-school parents; against mercy killing, sleazy TV shows and the religious vacuum in public schools), the bishops have taken distinctly liberal stances on welfare, crime, prisons, housing, national health insurance, world food policy, South Africa and the Panama Canal treaty (the bishops were strongly influenced by calls of support from Archbishop Marcos McGrath of Panama City). The bishops have backed both Israel's right to exist and Palestinians' "right to a state...
...negative advertising tactics now common to the New Right. Its most significant victory was the 1980 election of archconservative John East to the second Carolina Senate seat. Although the incumbent. Robert Morgan, was no liberal, a blitz of last-minute television ads attacking his support of the Panama Canal Treaties, and to Niearagoa New York, and a few other conservative hobby horses made the guy seem like Tip O'Neill's left-hand...
...also shoulders some blame for America's disarray during his Presidency. And he does succeed in reminding us that his administration was not entirely devoid of accomplishments. In addition to Camp David, the former president deserves credit for tangible changes in U.S. affairs, at home and abroad; the Panama Canal Treaty, normalization of relations with China, the energy windfall profits tax, and civil service reform are only the most striking...