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...removed from school cafeterias in New York City, then Los Angeles and Chicago. Said one school official: "It was overreaction and silliness carried to the point of stupidity." Kenneth W. Kizer, director of the California department of health services, said the panic was creating a "toxic bogeyman." Still, a number of school systems across the country followed suit. Signs were posted above produce bins coast to coast pointing out the Alar-free apples. Makers of products like apple juice, a staple of the preschool diet, sent out releases saying their brands were safe. Washington State, which grows...
...includes avoiding a sense of urgency, the , U.S. must step up the pace in Central America, where events threaten to outrun the Administration's ability to deal with them. In Nicaragua the Sandinistas have cried "peace" just cleverly enough to convince the Central American Presidents that the contras, who number about 11,000, should be dislodged from Honduras and disbanded. Although the rebels are pretty well finished as a fighting force, Bush and Baker want to keep them in place and continue supplying them with food, clothing and medical supplies until the Nicaraguan elections, which the Sandinistas promise to hold...
...sets standards for water safety, but has been slow to formulate limits. So far, maximum levels have been decided for some 30 contaminants, less than half the number ordered by Congress. Moreover, critics complain that there is no monitoring of water in the home...
Violence has become a fact of Peruvian life. Government studies count 12,965 people dead in terrorist-related violence since 1980, when Sendero Luminoso began its campaign to overthrow the government. Already this year, 794 killings have been tallied, though the actual number is no doubt much higher. Outside the major cities, hundreds of police officers and mayors have deserted their posts after receiving death threats from terrorists. In the area around Huancayo, the capital of Peru's breadbasket department of Junin, Sendero Luminoso is locked in a battle for dominance with the Cuban-oriented M.R.T.A. rebels. The city, says...
...should be an idyllic place to live. Yet something is wrong here. Clay Center (pop. 4,700) has lost hundreds of jobs in the past decade, which has prompted an exodus of its young people. In all of Clay County, for which the town serves as county seat, the number of deaths (1,000) since 1980 has substantially outnumbered births...