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...suppressing opposition to the regime. The youths attack suspected opposition supporters with sticks or iron bars, and are known for their brutality. The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, based in Harare, estimates they beat thousands of government opponents in the run-up to the 2002 elections. The Peace Solidarity Trust, another Zimbabwe-based rights group, says they commit the majority of torture that occurs in Zimbabwe. First set up in late 2001, the camps are officially part of the National Youth Service Training Program, which the government says teaches job skills and patriotism. The witnesses who spoke...
Green says it was only after many months of off-record conversations that he and Siegel built up the trust of their subjects...
...Until 1995, Superfund got most of its money from polluters. In most cases, the company that contaminated a site would pay to clean it up. In cases where no existing company was responsible for a contaminated site—so-called orphan sites—Superfund relied on a trust fund which companies from polluting industries were compelled to pay into...
...Congress failed to reauthorize the trust fund, shifting the burden from polluters to taxpayers. Since then, polluters have enjoyed a $4 million-a-day tax break at the expense of everyone else. In 1995, taxpayers covered just 18 percent of Superfund’s costs. This year, they will pay for a larger portion of the program. And now that the president has plunged the country into fiscal crisis, right-wing opponents of Superfund have an excuse to cut the program’s funding. Just when the Bush administration claimed it could not afford to add sites...
...next to the Atlas site, like those who live near more than 1,200 active Superfund sites nationwide, are the victims of a president and a Congress that puts polluters before people. Though we doubt President Bush and his kangaroo Congress will have a change of heart, reauthorizing the trust fund would be the right thing to do. And, in the meantime, Congress ought not cut Superfund’s budget anymore. The people of Fairhaven deserve better than that...