EPA probes chemical linked to male sterility in crops
The EPA investigates EDB ethylene dibromide found in wheat fruits and gasoline as a potential cause of sterility in men. EPA chief Douglas Castle compares concern to DBCP. The EPA and EDF cite cancer risk in lab animals and note EDB is common near highways. Dow Kerr-McGee Michigan produce EDB. DBCP recalls affect sperm counts in workers.
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Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Douglas M. Castle
Environmental Defense Fund
National Cancer
Dow, Great Lakes
Kerr-McGee
Michigan Chemical Companies
DBCP
Dow
Shell Oil Co
Shell
Mobile
Ala
Denver
California
Arkansas
Panic Over Disaster Rumor In Caracas
Rumor of a tidal wave destroying Caracas on Sunday spread by word of mouth since May, with some residents planning to flee. Authorities, scientists, and church leaders dismiss the forecast as absurd, while police brace for possible exodus under Operation Alpha to guard empty homes from theft.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Mars
Caribbean Sea
Antonio Parra
Msgr
Ovidio Peres Morales
2001
US Wanted Greenland Denied by Denmark in 1946 Offer
Danish historian says United States, via James Byrnes, offered to buy Greenland in 1946 at a UN meeting but the Danish government did not consider the offer. The claim rests on Danish records and secret files in a 600 page history of 1929 to 1953 politics.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
United States
Greenland
Tage Kaarsted
Kaarsted
U.S
James F. Byrnes
Gustav Rasmussen
United Nations
New York
Byrnes
Rasmussen
Arctic
Communist Party
Aksel Larsen
U.S. Central Intelligence
KC Woman's Death Linked To Other Recent Killings
In Kansas City, the bound nude body of 19 year old Arlene Godley was found in an east side park. Police link her death to two earlier slayings of young women in isolated areas, noting common factors such as nudity and possible sexual assault.
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Kansas City
Arlene Godley
City Public Works
Miss Godley
Tonya Wagner
Lincoln High School
Eleena Renee White
Interstate 435
Missouri River
al Lomax
Miss Wagner
Miss White
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Noerlund
Jerry Mills
Mike Jones
Bill Ewing
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Moin
Ottawa
Ath and
Mal
Garnett Hospital
Allen County Community Junior College
Mallard
Meredith
Garnett
Watson
Burlington
Girard
Benton
ACCJC
Smith
Ottawa Adult Learning Center
Iola
Kansas
Quebec, Canada
Quebec
Canada
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Jean-Jacques Blais
Maj
Sidney Harlow
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Investigation Bureau
Bob Miller
Dita Wnsurance Agency
Norge
N. Main
Romiter Ade
Parra
Bingo
Raymond Rumford
Kan
Franklin Savings Association
Franklin Savings In
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