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Nearly 250,000 workers are being exposed to toxic chemicals that could cause cancer, heart problems and lung disease, according to studies by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Early detection of the ailments could prevent serious disability or death. The Centers for Disease Control asked for $4 million in the 1985 budget to notify vulnerable workers. But according to Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader and Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the Public Citizen Health Research Group, the Reagan Administration rejected that request. In a letter to the President last week, Nader and Wolfe wrote, "The lame excuse offered...
...which has established a national hotline and helped coordinate FBI information on thousands of the nation's missing children. He authored legislation on amusement park safety; he was the chief sponsor of the Civil Rights Act of 1984; the co-author of an amendment to a toxic wastes bill that provides for the use of federal funds to clean up waste sites on federal lands, he chairs a House Subcommittee on Higher Education and has sponsored measures not only to improve public education curriculum but also to raise salaries for teachers...
...contrary Supreme Court ruling, to deny all federal funds to entire institutions, rather than just to the offending department or program, if discrimination is practiced. Killed, too, was a bill to renew and increase financing of the superfund program under which Washington helps states and localities clean up toxic-waste dumps. The fates of these bills will depend heavily on the unknown makeup of the next Congress and Administration...
...disclosures, in fact, confirmed what investigators had first suspected several years ago, that there are really two Mafia groups working in the U.S.: one composed of the old families that began operating in the U.S. during Prohibition and later branched out into gambling, prostitution, labor rackeleering and, more recently, toxic-waste disposal, and the other a "branch office" established by one of the factions of the Sicilian Mafia. The Sicilian branch cooperated with the U.S. Mafia but did not take orders from...
What follows is a predictably heroic attempt by Stuart--the educated, urbanized outsider--to save the town from itself. He suspects that a toxic substance is causing the townspeople to repress the emotional mechanism designed to curb passions, literally lifting the lid off the id. His discoveries come--unsurprisingly--too late. The film's closing minutes play like a spinoff of The Stepford Wives...