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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just received hard evidence to indicate a tie-up between the New People's Army with the Moro National Liberation Front [the Muslim separatist movement]. [In addition], the economic crisis came up. Since the economic crisis has dimensions that we cannot actually now determine, I would rather play safe. I may be blamed for being overly cautious, but certainly meeting both the insurgency as well as the economic crisis at the same time, I don't think this is the time to lift martial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Interview with President Marcos | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...Environmental Protection Agency, however, is the worst of the three agencies. Some carcinogenic pesticides continue to be used, although many scientists believe there is no safe level of use. The EPA entirely exempts from regulation what it calls "inert" chemicals, which may be mixed with pesticides to increase their effectiveness, even though many inert chemicals are poisonous. The EPA also uses a data base collected 15 years ago to estimate how much of what foods the average individual consumes today--data which Congress says "borders on the absurd." Since the EPA study was made in 1965, Congress reports, "We have...

Author: By Leonard H. Shen, | Title: ...Another Man's Poison | 9/21/1979 | See Source »

BOSTON--An Air Canada DC-9 jetliner with 42 persons on board lost a four-foot chunk of fuselage over the North Atlantic yesterday, but the aircraft made a safe emergency landing at Logan Airport...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jet Returns Safely | 9/18/1979 | See Source »

...removed quits because of a spouse returning to school a safe bet would be that there would be a 15-to-20 per cent turnover here," Cantor says. He points to an 18-per-cent turnover rate in most industries as a fairly stable norm...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Nine to Five in Harvard's Halls | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

...says that he has already turned down politicians and advertisers who wanted to hire him, and explains that his black boxes include a "fail safe" mechanism that prevents clients from playing anything but the message he has programmed into them. Still, many Americans would undoubtedly be outraged by any secret at tempts to influence their behavior for better or worse. As Aryeh Neier, former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, puts it, "People have a right to go about their business without being subjected to manipulation they don't even know about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Secret Voices | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

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