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...believed that the chemical, used primarily as a fumigant after the grain has been harvested, causes cancer and birth defects in laboratory animals, even in minute quantities. Industry spokesmen and EPA officials have often argued that there is no firm evidence linking the chemical to cancer in humans, but longterm studies have shown EDB to be carcinogenic in rats and mice. For the time being, consumers everywhere are the unwitting guinea pigs who will demonstrate the pesticide's effect on human health...
...emphasizing the social and economic dimensions of the Central. American problem and suggesting the need for longterm answers, the Commission moves away from a total reliance on the hasty military measures for problems south of the border that have too often plagued U.S. foreign policy. Nevertheless the ratio of military measures to social and economic ones endorsed by the report remains too high...
...What must we do on our side to develop longterm, stable relations...
...study is actually two efforts, by cooperating groups of scientists, one headed by Cornell Astronomer and TV Personality Carl Sagan and the other by Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich. They presented their findings at the two-day Conference on the Longterm, Worldwide Biological Consequences of Nuclear War. It was attended by some 600 American and foreign scientists and environmentalists and addressed by satellite by four Soviet counterparts in Moscow. Among them: Evgeni Velikhov, vice president of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. The Soviets said they had independently come to roughly the same conclusions as the Sagan-Ehrlich teams...
Officers at the scene said that even though there were no arrests, the roadblock was successful because much of its impact is in longterm public relations...