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Companies accused of selling unsafe products have drawn steadily harsher penalties from courts and regulatory agencies in recent years. Last week that trend was significantly advanced by Jus tice Department felony indictments against Chicago-based Velsicol Chemical Corp. and six present and former employ ees. The executives, all of whom could face prison terms, are charged with con spiring to conceal from the Environmental Protection Agency the results of tests that showed that two widely used pesticides may cause cancer in humans. The indictment is the first ever sought by the EPA against a company for covering up adverse information...
...vaccinated before traveling abroad. To people in Asia and Africa, it has been a scourge. As recently as 1967, it was endemic in 30 countries and claimed an estimated 2.5 million victims. Now, in one of those major human victories that get too little no tice, Donald Henderson, the Cleveland-born doctor who heads the World Health Organization's campaign against smallpox, has announced that "we will wipe out the disease within three or four months." No cases have been detected in Asia in two months; the world's last known pocket of smallpox is in a remote...
Just why Kissinger did allow it remains unclear. He himself has said that he regrets the whole episode, but that he was told that it was the usual prac tice followed in previous Administra tions. Some observers believe Kissinger was truly concerned about security and worried that leaks would damage delicate negotiations, though most agree that the disclosures in question concerned information that was a secret only to the American people, not to the Communists...
...release him because he was 21. Dan Voll, who was seized in New York, has filed an assault charge against Patrick; his lawyer, John LeMoult, argues that most deprogram ming raids involve assault and unlaw ful imprisonment. But since parents are involved, federal officials do not in prac tice deem the abductions kidnaping...
LOUIS PATRICK GRAY III, 55, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Division, will be responsible for enforcing the council's policies. Under Gray, Jus tice Department attorneys, one assigned to each of the OEP's ten regional offices, will ask for the injunctions and fines required by the law and Nixon's executive order. They will concentrate on cases involving substantial violations...