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Despite its lack of alarm, the report clearly recognizes that the large-scale use of pesticides is a new phenomenon that should be studied and carefully regulated. There is no doubt that in large quantities some chemicals can do harm, and the small amounts of pesticides that get into human bodies at present may have long-term effects that have not yet been recognized. New pesticides may prove to have unexpected dangers, and familiar ones may become damaging if they accumulate in soil or ground water. To avoid such threats, the report recommends: > More federal research on the effects...
...Minister Ernest Marpies. But the noise hardly concealed the fact that most Laborites wholeheartedly favor modernizing the state-owned railways, which cost the nation $500 million in 1962 alone. They claim that Beeching's plan, which includes closing down one third of the whole system, may do more harm than good, unless it is made an integral part of a new, overall transport policy in which Britain's congested highways and inadequate air services could be expanded to absorb the extra traffic...
...Potlako Leballo, who fled to the British-ruled enclave of Basutoland, Poqo is a terrorist offshoot of Sobukwe's militant Pan-African Congress and is determined to "murder the whites or chase them into the sea." As it turned out, Leballo's big mouth did Poqo more harm than good. Embarrassed British officials ordered his arrest, and he barely escaped into Basutoland's rugged mountains, leaving behind him a list of 10,000 black rebels in South Africa. Thanks either to coincidence or to Basutoland's connivance, South African police rounded up 2,000 rebels...
...constitutions discriminate against minorities. That unwritten rule exists because the University learned that the social aims of clubs which required discriminatory clauses were uniformly pernicious. The University very likely would not recognize a Harvard Anti-Semitic League or a Harvard Segregation Club, even if these groups did not materially harm other undergraduates. On the same grounds, the University can afford to tolerate the real discrimination of the final clubs: the clubs are intellectually vacuous and socially innocuous. Thus the Faculty committee will be justified in applying the University's tradition against discrimination only if it is convinced that the social...
Keating emphasized that the police repression of Negroes in Birmingham must be stopped because of the harmful effect it has on American prestige abroad. "The photos of police dogs biting Negroes will be reprinted throughout the world." Keating said, "and they will harm us tremendously...