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WHITEWATER: CR: RUTH FREMSON-AP; BUDGET: CR: GREG GIBSON-AP; BOSNIA CR: REUTERS POOL; POPE: CR: RUTILIO ENAMORADO-REUTERS; ISRAEL: CR:JIM HOLLANDER-REUTERS; BUDDHA: CR: ROBERT NICKELSBERG FOR TIME; SIMPSON CR: STEVEN SCHRETZMANN-THE DESERT...
...CR's technical policy and public-service director Edward Groth III calls the fda letter to Hansen "hogwash, a propaganda document put out to discredit his report." Groth defends Hansen's expertise and explains CR's position on bst: "The literature shows there is possibly a problem but no conclusive proof. Scientist A says we should be cautious. Scientist B says let's go ahead. Science sometimes carries more weight than it should. Science is good, but in policy you need value judgments...
...setting policy, rather than rating products, CR's purpose? Richard Greenhaus, 65, was a testing engineer for the magazine for 18 years; he left in 1990 because, he says, CR had "changed from an interested consumers' group to a bureaucracy behaving like a branch of government." Greenhaus charges that Consumers Union president Rhoda Karpatkin "is a politically active Democrat" and that CR has changed from conducting disinterested research to promoting a consciously liberal agenda. Says Karpatkin, citing a 1986 letter from Ronald Reagan praising Consumers Union's "competence and impartiality": "I do not engage in partisan politics...
...growth of new products threatens to swamp the magazine that was established to rank them for the buying public. Hundreds of new computer-software programs and games appeared in the months preceding the last Christmas buying season. "We're not going to test software in the foreseeable future," admits CR's Alan Lefkow. "It is beyond this department...
...fair shake for buyers; now the field is jammed with such advocates-some of whom regularly snipe at the magazine that started the trend in the first place. And with the g.o.p. controlling both houses of Congress, and a move from government-as-watchdog to a deregulated economy, CR's brand of activism may draw increasingly thunderous criticisms. If so, will the noise matter inside a 30-ft. by 30-ft. by 30-ft. echoless chamber...