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Seveso, Italy, July 10,1976. Between 1 Ib. and 22 Ibs. of poisonous dioxin were released into the atmosphere over an area of 4,500 acres when a chemical reaction at the Hoffman-La Roche plant set off an explosion. More than 1,000 residents were forced to flee, and many children developed a disfiguring rash called chloracne, but no lives were lost...
...affect Times Beach, Mo. Windows in the houses there are boarded up, and the wind whistles down the lonely streets of a newly created ghost town. Last year more than 2,000 inhabitants left when the water and ground were found to be contaminated with dangerous levels of dioxin...
...that Ruckelshaus would be replaced by Lee Thomas, 40, a blunt, hard-driving administrator. A former South Carolina public safety official, Thomas had been with the Federal Emergency Management Agency when it played a key role in the federal purchase of many homes in Times Beach, Mo., because of dioxin contamination in 1983. Ruckelshaus placed Thomas in charge of the U.S. toxic-waste program...
Residents said Haley & Aldrich also did not test for toxic chemicals such as dioxin, which they said is not included on the EPA's list of 129 priority tests which the firm conducted...
...stump speeches with a gospel hymn from one of the record albums he has co-recorded. Ashcroft beat back the challenge of Democrat Kenneth Rothman, 49, Lieutenant Governor for the past four years. A graduate of Yale and the son of minister, Ashcroft defended his failure to prosecute dioxin polluters by pointing out that doing so precipitately might have jeopardized the federal buyout of polluted homesites...