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...communist" election winners are not "anti-communist" but simply not members of the CCP, Hofheinz said. Only about 4 per cent of China's population are actual party memebrs, he added...

Author: By Nellie Henderson, | Title: Chinese Vote Engineered, Experts Say | 11/27/1979 | See Source »

...Chinese Government announced Thursday that candidates not affiliated with the official Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had won 38 per cent of the vote in Peking district elections...

Author: By Nellie Henderson, | Title: Chinese Vote Engineered, Experts Say | 11/27/1979 | See Source »

...crisis reached its peak this fall, hitting the Globe harder than other area papers. The space allotted to news in the Globe dropped 7 per cent this fall, Giuggio estimated, and pictures of newly married couples were eliminated from the wedding pages of the Sunday section...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Paper Drought Plagues Boston Papers; No Space for Golden Anniversaries | 11/27/1979 | See Source »

...political pressure is the Hazardous Waste Management Division, which has been unable to prevent some 80 billion pounds of dangerous industrial by-products from contaminating reservoirs, drinking wells and rivers. One reason for this colossal failure is the division's miniscule funding, which amounts to less than 1 per cent of the total EPA budget--and is being cut even more by the White House Office of Management and Budget...

Author: By Leonard H. Shen, | Title: The Politics of Pollution | 11/21/1979 | See Source »

...less ordered the regional people to 'look the other way"' when they received complaints about chemical pollution. Hamstrung by a subsistence budget and reluctant to step on the sensitive toes of its regional offices, top administrators have quietly suspended all action on chemical dumps despite evidence that 90 per cent of the nation's 50,000 hazardous waste desposal sites are leaking. "Because of pressure from the White House to fight inflation," EPA branch chief William Sanjour reports, "we were directed to avoid regulating hazardous waste from the oil and gas industry, electric power companies, and other large industries...

Author: By Leonard H. Shen, | Title: The Politics of Pollution | 11/21/1979 | See Source »

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