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Carter orders a further evacuation from polluted Love Canal...
...Panama Canal treaties. The Administration's knockdown, drag-out, barely successful battle for Senate ratification left political scars that have still not healed...
...other prime contender is Bush, who in the view of one of his advisers "is in better shape with the true believers of the right than Howard Baker," because of Baker's vote for the Panama Canal treaties. Bush, who on Pennsylvania primary day was wearing gold cuff links bearing the vice-presidential seal (a gift from Nelson Rockefeller), has repeatedly brushed aside suggestions that he would settle for the No. 2 spot. Says he: "No way." But a close aide says that Bush might be willing to join the Reagan ticket in the end because of the Californian...
Brown knows his subject. As a reporter for the Niagara Gazette, he broke the story of the Love Canal disaster, revealing how chemicals buried in an abandoned waterway were leaking into homes and were suspected of causing health problems, from respiratory and liver ailments to birth defects...
Unfortunately, Love Canal is only the tip of a tremendous toxic iceberg. A 1978 Environmental Protection Agency study identified 32,254 toxic waste dumps around the U.S., some 800 of which posed "significant imminent hazards" to public health. Brown demonstrates that the chemicals in these sites have already begun to take their toll...