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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said his government found the United Nation's proposal for a 7500-person peace-keeping force "totally unacceptable," adding that he was not prepared to accept a year-long transition period...
...cops found no one in the house. The MOVE members had hidden themselves in a corner of the basement. O'Neil then ordered a crane to begin demolishing the house as warnings were shouted over a police loudspeaker for MOVE to surrender. More water was poured into the basement. Trained police sharpshooters aimed at the house. Suddenly, someone fired a shot and the battle began. Policemen and firemen fell to the ground--some wounded, some trying to avoid bullets, one dead. After minutes of gunfire, the bedlam suddenly ceased, MOVE surrendered. But the toll was heavy: one police officer dead...
...warned that the police, by attempting to forcibly make them appear in court on violations of the city's health codes, would end up having to kill innocent mothers and their babies. Police ignored these warnings--probably because they could not conceive of anyone dying for an ideology they found so ludicrous. To the police, the MOVE members were just retrograde attention seekers who would surely crumple...
...dioxin. Crop-dusters try to confine spraying to forested areas with sparse populations, but the herbicide wafts toward more populated areas. Studies conducted by the Forestry Service document the phenomenon of "spray drift": the herbicide spreads to outlying areas coating them in a fine mist of chemicals. The Service found that dioxin floats into streams, where it harms fish. The same study documented a loss of vegetation adversely affecting the fishfood supply...
...ones who may suffer from the continued use of this herbicide. Matthew Meselson, professor of Biology at Harvard, published an alarming study showing that dioxin is present in beef fat at levels that have killed laboratory animals. Cattle graze on the sprayed rangelands and ingest the herbicide. He also found disturbingly high levels of dioxin in mothers' milk which may poison nursing children. While Meselson cautions that his study involves too small a sampling to be conclusive, he is nevertheless concerned about the continued use of the herbicide: "The EPA should have insisted on getting good chemical data...