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ETHYLENE dibromide (EDB) is not a household word, but Duncan Hines, Betty Crocker and Wonder Bread are. So when government officials recently discovered significant levels of the pesticide, a potent carcinogen, in a host of grain and cereal products, a warning cry went out. In the wake of these discoveries, and the public furor that followed, William Ruckelshaus, director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), last week suspended the use of the chemical on grain products...
...contrast, conventional arms reduction talks have at least a grain of hope, and hold more practical importance than the Geneva talks. The main reason for this is that troops and tanks are far larger drains on the superpower economies than nuclear weapons, and are not nearly as desirable from a technology or prestige point of view. By limiting the ability of the East to predict conventional victory, and the West to expect defeat, a success here would take away any incentive for Soviet attack, or for Western use of nukes in "self-defense" against an attack, Vienna, not Geneva...
...badly needs our service. While the problems touching this country are less serious than those afflicting others, they are also less excusable because the United States has the means to solve them. With millions of Americans malnourished. The government stores enough food to give every family two tons of grain and 40 pounds of dairy products. With countless homeless citizens, contractors level old apartment buildings for office and parking spaces. With rural and inner urban regions completely void of health care facilities, a national medical association projected a 13 percent doctor glut for the 1990s...
...million were confiscated last year by the DEA, roughly twice as much as the year before. The Justice Department last year seized more than $100 million worth of property and other assets. Among the diverse booty that must be managed and eventually sold: a jewelry store in Mississippi, a grain silo in Iowa, a floating dry-dock in Hawaii, 123 beef hindquarters in Pennsylvania and 1,700 cases of toothpaste seized in New Jersey...
...about $5,000 a week in (diesel fuel, insurance fees, crew salaries and supplies. Meanwhile, the barge lines must sublease other boats to carry cargo on existing contracts. What is more, corn and soybean prices have jumped 10? to 15? per bu. in some markets, but the grain companies cannot cash in. Agri Industries, a large Des Moines grain concern, has ten barges of corn and five barges of soybeans worth about $3.85 million stuck in the river. "It's going to be costly, no question about it." says Lloyd Eneix, senior vice president of Agri-Trans, which...