Battle over toxic wastes regulation grows in 1980s
In Our Opinion Battle expected WASTE: on toxic substances. By the end of the 1970s, hazardous wastes and cancer-causing chemicals drew public concern. EPA regulation shifts in late 1980 face delays, budget cuts, and internal turmoil under Anne M. Gorsuch as hearings focus on RCRA, Toxic Substances Control Act, and Superfund.
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William Sweet
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Anne M. Gorsuch
Gorsuch
Senate Committee On Environment and Public Works
Robert T. Stafford
R-Vt
Toby Moffett
D-Conn
Environment, Energy and Natural Resources
Moffett
Controversy Looms Over Nobel Peace Prize Choice
Report notes 89 nominees for this year including Lech Walesa and Dom Helder Camara. It recalls past reactions to King and Kissinger Tho, with Nixon allegedly feeling he deserved peace honors. Contenders span global figures amid ongoing debate.
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Nobel Committee
Richard L. Worsnop
Lech Walesa
Solidarity
Walesa
Poland
Kremlin
Nixon
Kissinger
Recife
Brazil
Dom Helder Camara
Ice cores reveal climate secrets from Greenland depths
An international team drilling nearly seven thousand feet into Greenland’s ice sheet retrieved six–foot ice cylinders. They reconstruct volcanic activity over ten thousand years, link sulfuric acid peaks to eruptions, and suggest dust from Arctic sources declined as the Ice Age ended. The project involves the United States, Denmark, Switzerland, with participants from Iceland and Japan.
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Associated Press
Greenland
Iceland
Japan
Siberia
On another shore, the sun is shining
A Hyannis correspondent writes from a stormy Cape Cod amid memories of Irish hunger strikes. He recalls Kennedy family history, the Maze prison deaths, Yeats’s grave, and the Ulster conflict. The piece contrasts sorrow with hope and notes Irish clerical figures linked to the protests.
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Hugh A. Mulligan
Hyannis
Mass
Cape Cod
Kennedy
Hyannis Port
Rose
Ted
St. Francis Xavier Church
South Street
Joe ,Jr
North Sea
John F
Dallas
Robert F
U.S
Los Angeles
Ireland
Camlough
County Armagh
Castleblaney
County Monaghan
Republic
Kieran Doherty
Provisional Ira
Northern Ireland
County
Sligo
William Butler Yeats
Ben Bulben
Drumcliffe
Yeats
Maze
Ulster
South Armagh
Sacred Heart
Bobby Sands
Newry
Thomas McElwee
IRA
Gerry Adams
Trish
Sinn Fein
Dublin
Tomas Cardinal O’fialch
All Ireland
Crossmaglen
William Cardinal Conway
Falls Road
Belfast
John McGee
Edward Daly
Derry
Denis Faul
Tyrone
Bernadette Devlin
Cathal Daly
Longford
New theory is simplest one of all
Mike Royko argues the Kennedy assassination conspiracy craze peaked, then collapsed when pathologists confirmed Lee Harvey Oswald’s body. He mocks the Oswald file theorists, notes how conspiracies multiplied across books and broadcasts, and ridicules the notion of Russian or CIA bodies in Oswald’s grave.
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Mike Royko
Chicago Sun-Times
CIA
Lee Harvey Oswald
Jack Ruby
Mel
Perry Noid
Boris Boris
Earl Warren
Warren
Mark Lane
Conpiracy
Mort Suhl
Dick Gregory
John Kennnedy
Bobby Kennedy
National Enquirer
Kennedys
Martin Luther King Jr
Novak
Cicero
KGB
Michael Eddowes
Oswald
Alek James Hiddell
Alek
Lee Harvey
Eddowes
George Wallace
Martin Luther King
John Lennon
Reagan
Gerald Ford
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Arthur Jenkins
Herald
Merald Company
Clinton Square
Stephen Rogers
Stephen A. Rogers
William D. Cotter
T. Hennessey
Carl J. Sweat
William W. Browning Jr. Ratoil
David 8. Kaczorowski
United States
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
King
Henry A. Kissinger
le Duc Tho
Theodore Roosevelt
Elihu Root
Woodrow Wilson
Charles G. Dawes
Frank B. Kellogg
Jane Addams
Nicholas Murray Butler
Cordell Hall
Emily G. Balch
John R. Mott
Ralph J. Bunche
George C. Marshall
Linus C. Pauling
Norman
Borlaug
Ram Afa
Atlantic Ocean
Macbeth
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