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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other areas concerning health, Finch has a free hand. Last week, as guardian of the nation's food, he appointed a commission to investigate the ecological effects of pesticides; he has meanwhile banned DDT-contaminated fish from interstate commerce. "I am very apprehensive about the situation," Finch declared. "Our present estimates are that each American has an average of twelve parts per million of DDT in the fatty tissue." While his department is only one of several concerned with ecology, Finch has been a leader in expressing concern. "The ecological sequence is just frightening," he says, discussing pesticides. "It drives...
...Occidental, his wife Carol, two years his senior, remembers him as a strait-laced type who neither drank nor smoked?and once wrote a poem urging her to give up cigarettes. She did?only to see him succumb. Until he took his present job, where he feels he has to set an example, he was smoking three packs...
...military role in the world, reasoning that 'we are overextended now,' 'it is too expensive to become too involved,' 'others ought to solve their own problems,' and 'we have suffered too many casualties already.' A majority of 51% feel our present stance is as far as we ought...
...week with a hard line ABM argument. He told a group of newspaper editors in Florida that, "based on the best information available to me," the Soviets will have 2,500 long-range missiles by 1975. By contrast, he said, the U.S. now has 1,054 iCBMs and at present no more are programmed for the next five years...
...conflict has its origins deep in Irish history, but nearly all the present participants own at least a share of the blame. On one side are the Protestant storm troopers of the Rev. Ian Paisley, who is now serving a six-month prison term for illegal assembly last November. On the other stand the angry Roman Catholics, Ulster's impoverished and politically disenfranchised minority. Aiding them, and drawing most of their support from the Catholics, are the civil rights advocates, who espouse a non-sectarian solution to Ulster's problems. Their banner was carried to the House...