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...Cultural Revolution have been cashiered. Chief among the restored officials is Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, who has since presided over a dramatic revision of China's policies in education, science and technology. Now, Teng seems to be intensifying the attempt to dislodge the "remnant poison" of the old radical faction that has resisted the sweep toward moderation. Says one Hong Kong analyst: "There are still plenty of people sitting around in various places who did in other people in the past. Teng and his boys want to settle scores with them...
...parliamentary investigating committee has issued a damning report on Italy's worst ecological disaster. On July 10, 1976, an explosion at the Swiss-owned Icmesa chemical plant discharged a thick white cloud of dioxin, one of the deadliest known poisons, over some 4,000 acres of the small industrial suburb 13 miles north of Milan. As the poison settled on homes and gardens in the following days, thousands of pets died, crops were infected and hundreds of people developed nausea, blurred vision and, especially among children, the disfiguring sores of a skin disease known as chloracne...
...remains blighted by concentrated "leopard spots" of contamination and continues to defy all attempts at purification. "It may be a wasteland forever-we just don't know what to do," admits a committee member. Even total incineration of the entire area has been rejected for eradicating a poison 1,000 times more toxic than strychnine...
...about dealing with despair," Springsteen says, "about people trying to hold on to their dignity in the middle of a hurricane. You look around, you see people on the street dug in. You know they're already six feet under, people with nothin' to lose and full of poison. I try to write about the other choice they...
...conventional pesticides cannot stop the invasion, the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington will consider permitting the states to use the banned poison heptachlor. It is extremely effective against grasshoppers, but researchers suspect it of causing cancer in animals. By law, the EPA can approve use of heptachlor only after public hearings, a process that usually takes more than 30 days...