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...their dominance of the National Executive Committee, stacking it 19 to 11 against Party Leader James Callaghan's moderates. The left-wingers later won a series of drastic new policy demands: withdrawal from the European Community, unilateral nuclear disarmament and a ban against U.S. cruise missiles on British soil. Although a proposal that Britain should quit NATO was rejected, the antinuclear pledges would effectively end active British participation in the Western military alliance...
...fast as the neighborhoods to the east, got its start in the 1830s when a cattle market settled there, soon spawning a stockyard, inns, taverns, and even a racetrack. Water shortages prevented much native industry from springing up, except for brickmaking concerns, which benefited from the clay in the soil...
...took years of local agitation and a lawsuit filed by the State of Michigan, but something now is being done by Hooker Chemical Corp. (which also left contamination at Love Canal) to help dispose of some 1.2 million cu. yds. of chemical waste, drums and contaminated soil on its 880 acres of property on the edge of Montague. The cleanup may be too late to satisfy many residents in the community, a small town (pop. 2,396) of gracious, shaded houses along the shores of White Lake. State water officials estimate that some 20 billion gal. of ground water have...
...past, ground water was kept pure because the soil at the earth's surface could be counted on to act as a filtration system, a kind of geological "kidney" that would scrub out bacteria and other insoluble contaminants placed on or in the ground before they could seep down to the water table, the ground water's upper limit. But this filtration system does not reliably screen out the waste chemicals cropland now leach into the soil from a variety of sources, including cropland that has been sprayed with pesticides, and industrial dumps like the pools into which...
...located 181,000 such "lagoons" at industrial and municipal waste agency sites around the country. In a study of 8,200 of them, the agency found other 72% were just holes in the ground, not lined with concrete or other materials to prevent the chemicals from leaching into the soil; 700 of these unlined lagoons were within a mile of wells tapping ground water...