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...author of three earlier books condemning drugmakers, Silverman is a persistent gadfly, but an influential one. Among his targets are the biggest drug producers in the world. Switzerland's Ciba-Geigy, fourth in sales in the indus try, is accused in the report of dumping 30th clioquinol and aminopyrine. The West German giant Hoechst and E.R. Squibb and Sons, Inc., of Princeton, N.J., are charged with selling tetracycline in Southeast Asia without sufficient warnings that the antibiotic can discolor children's teeth. California-based Syntex Corp. is taken to task for failing to publish standard warnings on birth...
Epstein makes many sound and commonsensical points but frequently ignores evidence that would modify sweeping statements. He says, for example, that the brainy and ambitious are no longer attracted to basic indus tries like "extracting ore and minerals from the earth, revolutionizing technology through invention and advancements in organization...
John and Martha Hook live 29 miles north of Pittsburgh in the small indus trial town of Butler, where he works as a radio station engineer. They have been registered Democrats all their lives and both voted for Carter in 1976 because, in John's words, "Ford pardoned Nixon." But they feel let down by the President. Says Martha: "It takes every penny we have for food and the doctor." The hostage issue rankles with John: "Carter should have had them out of there right away." And Carter has compounded his problem with the Hooks by his campaign tactics...
...either industrialization or a new industrial policy infuriates some observers. Says Yale Professor William Nordhaus, a former member of President Carter's Council of Economic Advisers: "Reindustrialization is a Hula Hoop. On a deeper level, it is a pernicious idea that basically calls for re-enforcing sick indus tries." Charles Willson, vice president for area development at Chicago's Continen tal Bank, says that Government-sponsored cures "don't address the question of capital formation in a really productive...
That would benefit the U.S. steel indus try and the economy of several ports. But environmentalists fear that disruption of the lakes' whiter ice cover would cause damage to fish and plant life. The energy crisis has made state governments less resistant to suggestions that gas and oil explorations- with their potential for pollution- be undertaken in the Great Lakes basin. (Canada already takes natural gas from Lake Erie.) These problems are not insoluble, but they will require a subtlety of technology and policy quite different from the massive input of dollars that cured many of the lakes...