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...ecodisaster in a lifetime is enough for Dennis Kelso, Alaska's commissioner of the department of environmental conservation. Unless tankers that use the 800-mile trans-Alaska pipeline submit individual spill contingency plans by Nov. 13, Kelso says he will deny them access to the port of Valdez, effectively shutting down the pipeline. George Bush has warned that a shutoff of oil would not be in the "national interest." This is not Alaska's first such threat. After the Exxon Valdez ran aground in March, Governor Steve Cowper told oil companies to increase safety measures or he would shut...
...comes the long work of reconstruction. Engineers say it may take four weeks to repair the Bay Bridge and up to 2 1/2 years to replace the wreck of I-880. Until the repairs are completed, 343,000 commuters will face a traffic nightmare as they are forced to use alternative routes. But the rebuilt structures are likely to be stronger than those they replace -- strong enough, it is hoped, to survive the dreaded...
...interpreters last March toured such institutions in the U.S.S.R. and interviewed more than two dozen patients whose hospitalization had been questioned. The watchdog group concluded that while improvements had been made, disturbing evidence remained of unjustified confinements and fundamental shortcomings in psychiatric practice. Most troubling were the continued use of drugs that appeared to have more punitive than therapeutic value and the domination of the Soviet psychiatric establishment by some of the very officials who ruled it when abuse was rampant...
Following a stormy final session that began after lunch and lasted well past midnight, the W.P.A. voted to accept the Soviet delegation, provided that the use of psychiatry for nonmedical purposes is banned. Moreover, in a symbolic addendum, the organization agreed unconditionally to admit a new independent Soviet psychiatric union whose members are considered genuine reformers...
...preceding the Americans' March visit -- the Soviets had satisfied the criteria established for readmission in 1983, which called simply for "amelioration" of past abuses. In the year since the last W.P.A. meeting, for instance, the Soviets have released more than a hundred "patients." In July they purportedly banned the use of pain-inducing sulfazine, the most notorious of the contested drugs...