Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PRETORIA, South Africa--South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster announced yesterday he is resigning for health reasons after 12 years as South Africa's uncontested political leader...
Although the number of veterans with symptoms paralleling lab results is increasing, the Army and the Veterans' Administration (VA refuse to accept responsibility for the health problems of the veterans and their children. The V.A., which has received over 500 dioxin inquiries, still maintains that no one has proved cancer originated in Vietnam or that a male veteran exposed to Agent Orange could transfer genetic abnormalities to his child...
Citizen groups in sprayed areas are organizing, motivated by evidence that spray drift causes severe environmental and health damage...
...responsible for evaluating the potential environmental and health hazards faced by Americans, has received so many complaints about the use of this herbicide that it has established a special dioxin project. The agency has also issued regulations requiring that those who want to use the herbicide prove that it does not harm people, an ironic demand in the face of available evidence. But the EPA has stopped short of forbidding the herbicide's use. In April, the agency published an elaborate defense of its policy, providing exhaustive appendices and tales of scientific studies documenting the harmful effects of dioxin...
Guzzi proposes a moratorium on the construction of nuclear power facilities, supports the Kennedy-Corman National Health program as well as a tax-based income policy, and favors an $18.1 billion...