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Several Sierra Club activists traveled to Washington in September to lobby for a strong Superfund law. We were shocked to learn that some Congressmen did not understand the impact of this year's Superfund proposal, which is much weaker than the one passed by the House in 1984. Public health is not an issue that should be sacrificed for political infighting. Doris Cellarius, Chair Hazardous Materials Committee Sierra Club San Francisco...
...taxes, import controls and cuts in public spending, the plan was designed to ease the country's roughly $6 billion budget deficit, its $3 billion balance of payments deficit and its $14 billion foreign debt. Despite the resulting labor confrontation, the government refuses to give way. Since the real impact of the austerity will not begin to be felt for months, Papandreou will probably win this round. Last week he was taking no chances. Diverting attention from domestic troubles, he charged that U.S. jets from the Sixth Fleet had violated Greek airspace. SOLOMON ISLANDS They Had the Wings...
...indulging at least one prejudice. "There is a conscious attempt," says Rees, "to avoid appointing people who will be on the bench only a few years." Typically, too, appointees are male and white. Only four of Reagan's judges are black, eleven Hispanic, and 22 female. The long-term impact of younger white male appointments is troubling to liberal activists like Elaine Jones of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. "They will just be hitting their stride in 15 years," she says. "In any question that pits the rights of the individual against the power of the state...
...Robinson, TransAfrica and its spin-off Free South Africa Movement. Working out of a basement office in southeast Washington, Robinson has evolved into a black leader to be reckoned with. South African spokesmen predictably deny his effectiveness. Says Embassy Press Attaché Pieter Swanepoel: "The activities have had no impact on government decision-making policy. How could they, when they are taking place so far away from where those policies are formed?" But U.S. Senators and Representatives who voted for sanctions against apartheid enthusiastically acknowledge that Robinson's cool, calm competence helped rally black and white Americans against apartheid. Said...
...Colombia staggered under the impact of Nevado del Ruiz's devastating eruption last week, Mexico was still recovering from its own recent natural calamity. The scars of that disaster were barely evident along Mexico City's elegant Paseo de la Reforma as crowds thronged its tiled, tree-lined sidewalks. Piles of rubble from the country's Sept. 19 earthquake, which killed some 20,000 people and shattered the lives of tens of thousands more, had been bulldozed from the bustling avenue that borders the Zona Rosa, the luxury shopping and sightseeing district. Something akin to normalcy seemed to have returned...