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...filed a petition with the USDA demanding suspension of Biologics' license. In issuing that license, Rifkin charged, the department had not only failed to follow federal guidelines for releasing live, genetically altered organisms into the environment but also neglected to conduct an environmental assessment of the risks involved. Stung by the petition and aware of Rifkin's uncanny success in obtaining court injunctions to back his demands, the USDA beat a hasty retreat. Bert Hawkins, administrator of the department's animal and plant health inspection service, conceded that the USDA did not "document" its environmental analysis because "we felt...
With far fewer Americans to shuttle across the Atlantic, several major airlines will be stung by the shift in travel plans. The likeliest victims are financially struggling Pan Am and TWA, which depend on transatlantic routes for much of their revenue. Eastern Airlines has put on hold the start-up of a new route from Miami to Madrid. The reason: lack of business. Says Hal Rosenbluth, president of a Philadelphia travel agency: "I think the public tends to perceive the U.S. flag carriers as targets." The airlines most immune to the slump are national carriers of northern European countries, which...
...unavailing. The latest country to reject a feeler: tiny Monaco. When the west African nation of Gabon was sounded out, the response from President Omar Bongo was curt: "We are not a garbage can." Baby Doc would love to stay in France, but the French summarily reject the idea. Stung by his rough treatment, Duvalier declared, "If I had known the only country I feel close to wouldn't welcome me, I would never have given up power...
...first indication of how Marcos reacts under these volatile conditions may come this week if Aquino and her followers go through with their plan to stage a 24-hour strike. Marcos hinted last week that he might use force to quell any outbreak of civil disobedience. Stung by world opinion and holed up in a palace surrounded by barbed-wire barricades, Marcos may try to reassert his power. If that should happen, the only tempering influence left may be Cory Aquino. "She must steer a moderate course," said Businessman Jaime Ongpin late last week. "If she opts for violence...
Aquino last week was watching Washington for important political signals. She was badly stung by President Reagan's offhand reference to opposition fraud during the election. She responded immediately with a press statement that coolly noted the appointment of Envoy Habib but observed that on his last White House assignment before retirement in 1983, Habib had failed to end civil strife in Lebanon. Said Aquino: "I hope neither Mr. Reagan nor Mr. Marcos is expecting to see our beloved country go the same way." Claiming that she had been cheated out of as much as 25% of the national vote...