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Reagan's spokesmen insisted that the President-elect was very much in command even if not on the spot. He was keeping in touch by phone and making decisions. He announced one trip before the Inauguration: to Mexico to visit President López Portillo in early January. Beyond that, he had little to say. Explained his chief aide, Edwin Meese: "This is not a time in which you profitably make news. You don't want to lock yourself into policy positions prematurely...
...they are allowed to see each other, a privilege not granted other protesting prisoners. Their relatives are also allowed a weekly visit, again an improvement over arrangements for the "blanket-men." But none of the fasting prisoners have touched the food that is routinely prepared and offered, and their spokesmen continue to insist that their demands are nonnegotiable...
...Industry spokesmen note that formaldehyde has long been used safely in products from nonwrinkle fabrics to fiberboard and drugs. The lab results, they say, cannot be extrapolated to humans. But many officials disagree. Massachusetts banned the sale of formaldehyde-based foam insulation last year, and other states are looking into the situation. So is the Federal Government, which now employs tax incentives to spur use of energy-saving insulation, including formaldehyde foam. Acting on the conclusion of a scientific advisory panel that there is indeed a cancer risk involved, the Consumer Product Safety Commission is slated to vote this week...
Community spokesmen yesterday refused to elaborate on when or where the demonstrations would be, but Charlotte Ploss, a member of the NOMATEP coalition, said last week's ruling by David A. Fierra, deputy commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) was "a bought decision" that her group would fight through public demonstrations...
Fierra's decision addressed the potential danger of the plant's nitrous oxide emissions, but spokesmen from Brookline and the NOMATEP coalition called this threat only one of many environmental issues surrounding the project...