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...problem is that residues of many invisible chemicals remain in the meat, endangering the final consumer, man. Some, like nitrite and nitrate preservatives, can be poisonous under certain conditions. Others, like the artificial hormone diethylstilbestrol, are suspected of causing cancer when consumed in large doses (see MEDICINE). To safeguard the public, the report urges that alt meat inspection be removed from the Agriculture Department and put under a tough new public-health agency...
...soon as steel settles, organized labor may make a broad-based push for a firm incomes policy to hold down the wage-price spiral. Such an effort is already building. George Meany, chief of the A.F.L.C.I.O., has recently spoken out in support of direct controls. His goal: to safeguard the purchasing power of the dollars that his workers have won at the bargaining table...
...Interior Department has demanded a detailed environmental-safeguard report before construction can begin. Last month Interior Secretary Rogers Morton visited Alaska to see the route for himself. Oilmen, business leaders and Governor William Egan pleaded for a decision, but the permit is still not forthcoming. The angry Governor told TIME: "Oil was to be the catalyst to solve our economic difficulties. We are being kept from using our resources and controlling our own future." In turn, Morton recently complained about another delay: "The monkey is on the oil companies' back. I've been two-weeked and two-weeked...
...proposed a $100 million littoral refinery. "We're particularly sorry to see that emotionalism was permitted to obscure the fact that we are capable of building a clean refinery." But Peterson, himself a former Du Pont executive, has become convinced that performance controls "are not an effective enough safeguard" against pollution; he especially fears for the state's handsome beaches which now support a thriving tourist business. Besides, the Governor warned, a massive influx of industrial workers "could build population pressure that would create more problems than it would solve...
...Warren Court's major instrument for change was the 14th Amendment. Ratified after the Civil War, that amendment was primarily designed to safeguard individuals, especially blacks, against state infringement of two rights: due process and equal protection of the laws. At first, U.S. courts interpreted those rights cautiously, fearing to upset the delicate balance between the state and federal governments...