Government’s Dirty Secret Exposed Radiation in Pacific Northwest
Opinion piece charges the Energy Department hid radioactive iodine releases from 1940s to 1950s at Hanford. It says 20,000 residents in eastern Washington, Oregon, and Idaho may have received up to 3000 rads, risking cancer and illness. The Hanford Education Action League via FOIA uncovered 19,000 pages, spurring a two year risk study and raising calls for accountability.
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Watergate
Pacific Northwest
Energy Department
Richland
Wash
Washington State
Oregon
Idaho
Ukraine
Chernobyl
Hanford Education Action League
Editorials Across Papers Rally for Eastern Europe and South Africa
A roundup of editorials from The Providence Journal, Los Angeles Times, Journal of New Ulm, Evening Journal Martinsburg, and others surveys responses to revolutions, the South African reform drive, and Imelda Marcos acquittal. They urge Western support for emerging democracies, caution on costs, and critique U.S. foreign policy choices.
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United States
the Providence
R.J
Sunday Journal
Europe
Los Angeles Times
South Africa
South African Development Bank
New Development Bank
the Evening Journal of
Martinsburg
W.va
Imelda Marcos
Long Island Sees Defense Spending Shakeout and Peace Dividend
In a Brookhaven influenced piece, defense budget cuts threaten 840000 civilian defense jobs nationwide, with about 10000 at Long Island sites like Brookhaven, Sperry Unisys, and Grumman. Representative Hochbrueckner vows to shield local workers while defense funding shifts.
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Brookhaven
N.Y
Business Week Magazine
U.S
Rich Schneider
Hempstead
Long Island
General Instruments Corp
George Hochrueckner
1St District
New York
Department of Defense
Lae Island
George Hochbrueckner
U.S. Cavalry
Hochbrueckner
House
Armed Services Committee
Grumman
Defense Department
California
St. Louis
Phoenix
Tucson
Seattle
Dallas-Fort Worth
Connecticut
Boston
Virginia
Pentagon
Norfolk
Newport News
Reagan
Brookhaven National Laboratories
Sperry- Unisys
Grumman Areraft
Lion
Washington
Hachbrueckner
Teledyne Inc
Los Angeles
Congress
Teledyne
Calfornia Company
Sobering facts about the Soviet Union rates of poverty and decay
Ken Adelman notes that despite Western talks of aid, the Soviet Union faces deep poverty with 40 percent below poverty, 79 percent of elderly poor, limited telephones, scarce cars, poor housing and plumbing, hot water shortages in 60 percent of hospitals, and low life expectancy. He cites weak infrastructure, few cars per capita, and rising inflation and alcohol use, warning of potential economic decline despite Gorbachev reforms.
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Houston
Moscow
Union
Gorbachev
Fidel Castro
Soviet Union
South Africa
America
U.S.S.R
Mexico
California
Washkiow
Mikhail Gorbachev
Leonid
Breghne
Aecoyssonzhow
Decadones
Hariom
Gererar
U.ss.r
Ken Adelmans
Herald-Journal
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Syracuse Herald-Journal
Arthur Jenkins
Herald
Herald Company
Clinton Square
Syracuse
Stephen Rogers
Stephen A. Rogers
Timothy D. Bunn
Timothy P. Atseff
Donald P. Pickard
James F. Kleinklaus
Thomas J. Heck
the Journal of
NASA
Hubble
John Keenan
Foley Square
U.S. Justice Department
Ferdinand Marcos
Panama
Manuel Noriega
Igtinipins
New Hampshire
Hell
Eisenhower
Indus
Tice
Richard Reeves
Ken Adelman
Tippy
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