Editorial on Ruckelshaus misstatements about returnable bottles
The piece scolds EPA head William Ruckelshaus for citing a California study that disproved bottle deposits, noting no such study exists. It argues the press is lenient toward officials who err but still mocks the error and its spread.
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William D. Ruckelshaus
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Ruckelshaus
California
New York
David D. Dominick
Bill Ruckelshaus
Gleeft
Air Force overpays for spare parts says GAO report
The GAO faults the Air Force for buying spare parts for the F111 from prime contractors rather than subcontractors, spending 56 million dollars for parts not yet used. Spare parts totaling 116 million were bought before need was shown, with 9.6 million already excess. The report notes lack of controls to halt unused parts purchases and praises oversight from GAO and Rep. Les Aspin for scrutiny.
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Air Force
U.S. Steel Corporation
General Accounting Office
GAO
GAD
Leslie Aspin
Wisconsin
Letters to the editor Reply to a sick American
Readers attack a Sunday editorial and defend the California Supreme Court death penalty ruling while questioning law enforcement and prison policy. The letters from Long Beach Anaheim and Tang Beach challenge religious rhetoric and advocate life imprisonment with potential release.
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State Supreme Court
California Supreme Court
Anaheim
Wie Teast Society
Long Beach
Paul W. Koster
China finds a weak guardian in U.S.
A historical look at Sino American ties from the 1911 revolution through the Shantung crisis and the Open Door policy. It notes how U.S. guardianship of China shifted to strong anti foreign sentiment, with the 1904 Chinese Exclusion Act and later shifts shaping trust, including Wilson era reactions and May Fourth momentum.
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America
China
Sun Yat-sen
Congress
Wilson
United States
John Hay
Japan
Manckuvia
Nea
Shantung
Germany
Shantung Peninsula
Versailles
League
U.s.-China
California's Disappearing Coast The Legislative Challenge
A review of Gilbert Bailey and Paul Thayer's California's Disappearing Coast: A Legislative Challenge argues that California's coast is in grave danger from development and pollution. The book urges a statewide coastal protection framework modeled on the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission to balance public and private interests and safeguard wetlands, estuaries, and habitats.
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California
Gilbert E. Bailey
Paul
Thayer
Institute of Governmental Studies
University of California At Berkeley
New York
Empire State Building
Brooklyn Bridge
Perhiaps
Church of Technology
Gilbert Bailey
Paul Thayer
Bailey and
Fhayer
Bailey
Golden Shore
Sacramento
San Francisco Bay
Arnold J. Toynbee
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Jan Pippenger
Fnculty
Tomers
Margaret Chase Smoith
Raine
Tang Beach
Pat Krock
U.S
Anthony Austin
New York Times News Service
Secord I
Akon, Mao
Chou
S. Mallee Dent
Trfgram
Central Park
Connecticut
Press-Telegram
Charles Sutton
Waycome
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