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...ingredients were in place for a stew of a scandal. At stake were nothing less than the fate of the Italian tomato crop, one of the country's leading exports, and the pride of Campania, a lush farming region that stretches from Naples to the slopes of Vesuvius. At the height of the harvest two weeks ago, deliveries of tomatoes to canneries were abruptly suspended by the Italian Ministry of Agriculture. Reason: suspicions that much of a 200,000-metric-ton crop, perhaps 30% of a bumper harvest, contained the poisonous insecticide aldicarb. Marketed by Union Carbide under the trade...
...careless or greedy Italian farmers endangered the health of spaghetti- sauce lovers from Bologna to Burbank? No, the Italian Ministry of Health proclaimed last week. After a ten-day investigation that fueled a heated public debate, the government announced that the Italian tomato crop, which accounts for some 60% of the world's production of peeled canned tomatoes, was perfectly safe for consumption...
Agassiz School parents Larry Weinstein and Richard Griffin are the other two CCA-endorsed contenders, and the crop is rounded out by two veteran candidates, Timothy Tooney and David Kennedy, and Sara Garcia, who is running for the first time...
...There isn't much of a Hispanic family," says Hayly Rivera, who came from Peru to Jackson Heights. "It is sometimes more like a family feud." As ever, immigrants of several years' standing often look down on new arrivals. In some cases the political disputes of the old country crop up in the new land: Chilean New Yorkers argue with Argentine New Yorkers over border disputes a hemisphere away...
BORN. To Amy Irving, 31, actress of stage (Heartbreak House), screen (Micki & Maude) and TV (The Far Pavilions), and Steven Spielberg, 37, celluloid superczar who has two new productions (The Goonies, Back to the Future) in this summer's crop of films: the unmarried couple's first child, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Max Samuel. Weight...