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...drug abuse in industrial accidents, train crashes and highway pileups. Says Peter Bensinger, a former chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration who is now a leading consultant on drug abuse: "No one has a civil right to violate the law. Companies do have a right and responsibility to establish sound working conditions...
...topic for discussion. But none did, and initial expectations were low for the organization that sees itself as "a dynamic moral force on a global level." At its frequent best, PEN has indeed aided the release of writers imprisoned for their works, tried to lessen censorship, and helped to establish an international forum for national literature. But at its most portentous, the group can suggest a second-rate graduate school, where the lecturers outnumber the students. Even some of the much honored guests seemed resigned to unending seminars filled with such marrow-chilling words as alienation and creativity...
Some 600 members of the National Association of Manufacturers descended on Washington last week to lobby for the Danforth bill, which besides setting national standards for product-liability suits would establish a new procedure for speedy out-of-court settlement of claims for economic damages. They first gathered at the Marriott Hotel to swap horror stories and pep talks. Under present legal rules, "you're afraid to try anything, put any new product on the market," cried Gust Headbloom, president of Michigan's Apex Broach & Machinery Co. Peter J. Nord, president of Schauer Manufacturing Corp. in Cincinnati, which makes battery...
DIED. Eugen Gerstenmaier, 79, West German political leader who helped establish democratic reforms after World War II and served as President of the Bundestag from 1954 to 1969; of a stroke; in Bonn. Imprisoned by the Nazis for his involvement in the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, Gerstenmaier in the 1950s vigorously supported reconciliation with Israel and negotiated reparation payments to help ease bitter feelings...
...Neill's budget," the surrender of the Panama Canal and a national holiday commemorating Martin Luther King's birthday. The most damaging blow, however, may be Funderburk's recent contention that Broyhill wants to set up two nuclear-waste sites in the state. Actually, Broyhill introduced legislation to establish a waste site in the West; the bill was later amended in the Senate to set up a second site, not necessarily in North Carolina...