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THE University has embarked on solutions to other environmental problems. The presence of asbestos in many Harvard buildings prompted a major effort at William James Hall to remove and seal off insulation. Harvard discovered the problem and took some corrective measures; experts brought in by Harvard say the University's...
On the environment, Dukakis implemented one of the country's strongest toxic waste clean-up programs and fought for safety controls at the Seabrook nuclear power plant. While Dukakis opposed offshore oil drilling, there is little hope that former oilman Bush will. As head of Reagan's task force on...
Only three days after the change of KGB chiefs, the leadership was reshuffled in the most populous of the country's 15 republics. Vitali Vorotnikov, 62, premier of the Russian Republic (population: 144 million), was kicked upstairs into the presidency, making way for Alexander Vlasov, 56, a Gorbachev protege, to...
Leonid Abalkin, director of the economic institute of Moscow's Academy of Sciences, blames bureaucratic mistakes, a drop in energy prices and even high clean-up costs after the Chernobyl nuclear accident for the lack of progress. But he also points a finger at the "inconsistency, indecisiveness and halfway measures...
While Zewinski said the DEQE is too strict, environmentalists criticize the state agency for not moving fast enough on the clean-up program.