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...prolonged economic doldrums by discouraging tourists and development. With an unemployment rate currently averaging 15%, Cocke Countians openly envy the relative prosperity in Haywood County, home of the paper mill (present unemployment average: 6%). Says Cocke County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Robert Seay, co-founder of the Dead Pigeon River Council, which wants to clean up the stink: "It's completely unfair for one county to use the river and have a ((low)) unemployment rate, and 50 miles downstream here we are with one of the highest unemployment rates in the state." In North Carolina the people of Canton...
...compromise took shape earlier this year, thanks to the EPA's influence. Under a plan agreed to by all parties, Champion would spend $200 million over the next three years on a bleaching process for its wastes. Its goal would be to change the Pigeon's color to the shade of weak iced...
...compromise did not take into account a new, more solemn controversy. Last year a local physician noticed an unusually high number of cancer-related deaths in the tiny riverside hamlet of Hartford (pop. 300), whose people have always been accustomed to eating fish from the Pigeon River. In May, after EPA tests detected tiny traces of cancer-causing dioxin in fish from the Pigeon, the survivors of one husband and wife, who died of cancer within a month of ! each other, filed a $6 million wrongful-death suit against Champion. The dioxin controversy may tempt Cocke County to take...
...four decades of reality in U. S.- Soviet relations. -- The lonely life of a twelve- year- old refusenik. -- Noriega thumbs his nose at the U. S. again while American officials wrangle over who is to blame for a backfiring bungle. -- The cross- border big stink about the polluted Pigeon River...