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Recent congressional revelations of the environmental contamination produced by Government nuclear-weapons plants in Washington, South Carolina, Colorado and Ohio underscored the need for a costly cleanup. Last week the Department of Energy agreed to remove 6 million lbs. of dangerous wastes, some of it radioactive, that it had plowed into the ground or dumped into unlicensed landfills near an atomic-fuel-processing plant outside Piketon, Ohio, over the past 30 years. The much needed cleanup will not begin immediately: the final wording of the agreement is still being hammered out in a federal-court consent decree that must...
...years of grime from the curbstones. Newly painted red-and- white pavement glistens, and gardeners are trimming shrubs in Maha Bandoola Park, next to the Sule Pagoda. All that effort by Burma's seven-week-old military government is part of an official campaign to "Keep Rangoon Pleasant." The cleanup is an attempt to polish the military's tarnished image -- and that has doomed it from the start. "They think we will like them if they clean up the city," says a shop clerk on Merchant Street. "We will never forget or forgive what they have done...
UNFORTUNATELY for the nation, there are far more pressing items on the national agenda. Deficit reduction, environmental cleanup, urban poverty, campaign reform, trade policy, health care, day care, and retraining displaced industrial workers will all be considered by the next Congress...
...Although the workers were not seriously exposed, the sloppy attitude toward safety has a long history at the plant. In its early days of operation, it was prone to fires, culminating in a blaze in May 1969 that caused $21 million in damage. The installation also faces a huge cleanup bill for its careless handling of wastes in the past. The price is placed at $755 million by DOE; critics contend it will be twice that amount...
Four weeks ago, Aristide came out of hiding to demand that the new Avril regime institute a wholesale cleanup by Oct. 17, including a total "uprooting" of the dreaded Tonton Macoutes and other vestiges of the Duvalier era. "The ball is in your court, and you are playing before a people who do not trust you," he warned Avril. Haitians were soon surprised to learn that the priest had himself been confronted with an ultimatum...