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...Kerr McGee began to move out of Shiprock, abandoning uranium mine shafts and the uranium mill in favor of awaiting ore bodies found elsewhere on the reservation. In the early 1970s, the long-term effects of low-level radiation began to take their toll among the Navajo miner workforce. By 1974, 18 Navajo uranium miners had died from radiation-induced lung cancer, with many more near the hospitalization stage. Kerr McGee refused to take any responsibility or to pay medical expenses. As Kerr McGee spokesman Bill Phillips told one reporter in Washington, "I couldn't tell you what happened...
...sent 2,796,000 soldiers to Viet Nam, of whom 303,000 were wounded and 57,147 killed. For those who returned, the physical and emotional toll was drastically increased by the unpopularity of the war and America's unresolved guilt about its role. "Get that in Viet Nam?" a fellow student asked Veteran Frederick Downs as he walked across a college campus with a hook where his left hand should have been. When Downs nodded, the student snarled: "Serves you right." Says Michael Murray of Lewisboro, N.Y.: "They were down on us when they should have been down...
...condemned got little sympathy from Iranian students in the U.S., who were among the most vociferous critics of the Shah. Some pointed out that the death toll so far is a mere fraction of the tens of thousands who were killed during the last year of the Shah's regime. Others are disappointed that the trials are not public so that the facts of life under the Shah could be brought into the open. "The reason the executions were committed so promptly," says Younes Benab, an Iranian professor of economics in Washington, "is that there is fear in Iran...
...disease evokes images of pale, suffering poets like Keats and Shelley or wanly beautiful heroines like La Boheme 's Mimi and Camille wasting away in the arms of their lovers. Indeed, during the 19th century, tuberculosis-or consumption, as it was then called-exacted a horrifying toll; up to 20% of the population in Western countries died of it before the age of 50. But by 1882, when the German bacteriologist Robert Koch demystified the disease by identifying the tiny rod-shaped tubercle bacillus that caused it, the tide was turning...
...toll-free Government locks at Sault Ste. Marie are another disguised subsidy to the steel industry. There should be a toll at the Soo Locks similar to that imposed upon cargo passing through the Panama Canal...