COMMENT
COMMENT Three Nile Island Americans have always known that somewhere, somehow, in those nuclear power reactors that began dotting the landscape twenty years ago there was an uncertain but...
...The amendment would instruct President Carter to renegotiate the "protocol" in SALT II...
...These corporate defenders point to a succession of products challenged by the Government, from the artificial sweetener cyclamate to vinyl chlorides, Tris, saccharin, and now nitrite...
...It is one thing to acknowledge, as everyone does, that such weapons are now numbered in the tens of thousands, that each is capable of destroying a large city, that they continue to proliferate from country to country and within each country (especially our own), and that it would require the detonation of just a few of them to devastate human civilization...
...Monsanto Chemical Co., for example, has embarked on a costly advertising campaign to persuade us that chemical products are essential to our way of life...
...Sidney Wolfe of Ralph Nader's Health Research Group suggests that an important reason for the flurry of reports about carcinogenic substances is that "compressed into a very short period of time, you've had a tremendous output of studies that should have been done years ago...
...It is one thing to say, as scientists have been saying since the dawn of the atomic age in 1945, that nuclear weapons have introduced a new order of destructive capability fundamentally in conflict with old doctrines of national security...
...COMMENT Three Nile Island Americans have always known that somewhere, somehow, in those nuclear power reactors that began dotting the landscape twenty years ago there was an uncertain but indisputable element of risk — the risk of catastrophe...
...If such funding went not to arms but to an economic development program designed to benefit lower-class Israelis, Egyptians, and Palestinians throughout the area, many of the underlying tensions there might, at least, be eased...
...To press the notion that individual action is the answer — that we can shun cancer, for example, by eating "natural" food — is only to ignore those centers of economic and political power which determine the nature of our environment...
...Today, Doherty is AIFLD's executive director...
...But there are major weaknesses in the agreement which, if left uncorrected, will almost certainly lead to a resumption of war...
...and the United States...
...Perlik pushed for the idea at the meeting of the Guild's international executive board meeting in the fall of 1976, but failed in an 8-to-8 tie vote...
...The pace of escalation, it seems, will be identical whether the pact is approved or rejected...
...One day after blasting high corporate profits, Kahn argued that high profits are needed to increase capital investment and create jobs...
...There can be no doubt that these are essential steps toward peace...
...policy cannot, of course, guarantee such an outcome...
...Other members of the Trilateral Commission, which is one of David Rockefeller's policy-making organizations, include the top executives from such networks at CBS, such major publishing houses as Time, Inc., and such nationally influential newspapers as The New York Times, Chicago Sun-Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times...
...The Department also reported that personal income rose only .3 per cent in February...
...The alternative would be to count human bodies after the damage has been done...
...Statistics released late in March by the Department of Commerce showed that corporate profits increased by 26 per cent during the last quarter of 1978...
...There is scant evidence that its goals have changed...
...the buses arrived to take the inhabitants away...
...The drain on your life expectancy from a nuclear power program is equal to the risk from taking on an additional l/100th of an ounce...
...During his tour of duty as a correspondent for The Washington Post in Latin America during the early 1970s, says Lewis Diuguid, affiliation with AIFLD was "the kiss of death" for independent unionists...
...A campaign for the moratorium amendment would not only activate many thousands of citizens, but could enlist a respectable number of Senators...
...If so, take a couple of minutes to write a letter to Roone Arledge, president, ABC News, 1330 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y...
...In February 1967, the Newspaper Guild itself was exposed as a recipient of about $1 million in secret CIA money fun-neled through a web of dummy "foundations" whose contact in the Guild was Secretary-Treasurer Charles A. Perlik, who said he didn't know the money came from the CIA and that he "was never asked to do anything...
...Relatively effective price controls in such areas as gasoline have only led the energy conglomerates to stop building domestic refineries, creating a shortage of unleaded gasoline...
...It is now up to Congress to appropriate the funds...
...More than 100 industrial corporations have banded together to form the American Industrial Health Council, a lobby that is spending more than $1 million a year to combat the stricter carcinogen controls proposed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA...
...I wouldn't want to carry that additional load if I was writing in Latin America," says Richard Dudman of the St...
...That's just part of the good news about nuclear power contained in a special report described by Editor William F. Buckley Jr...
...economy...
...to 1 A.M...
...Price guidelines, which are extremely complex and lack even a monitoring mechanism, will serve largely to legitimize higher prices and profits...
...Why not make your city the next...
...It is an illusion, therefore — an illusion which our business leaders would like us to share — that "biting the bullet" now will lead to a rosy future somewhere down the road...
...It would direct the President to negotiate a new protocol, calling for an "end to all research, development, testing, manufacture, and deployment of any new weapon that is not yet fully deployed...
...Why...
...Reistrup...
...Whether there was anything "sinister" in the scheduling is a moot point...
...Until we can effectively put on the public agenda the issue of how and for whom corporate decisions are made, the corporate squeeze play, aided and abetted by Jimmy Carter or any other President, will continue to be played at our expense...
...That news burst like a bomb from one end of the country to the other," said Guild convention delegate J.V...
...A lasting peace in the Middle East must guarantee Israel's right to exist, but it must also provide a homeland for the Palestinians...
...A political coalition of workers and environmental activists could not help but focus on the production technologies and products of some of our largest corporations...
...How, then, can such unity be brought about...
...Children and pregnant women fled the unseen danger...
...The grant is being tunneled through the American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD), a non-profit corporation set up in 1961 by the Kennedy Administration, the AFL-CIO, and big business to blunt left-wing labor impulses in the hemisphere following the rise of Fidel Castro...
...Much of this raw material production will in turn be sold to foreign The Great American Corporate Squeeze Play continues...
...In some cases — asbestos, for example — studies showing the carcinogenic potential to workers and the public were suppressed while efforts were made to widen the market...
...The Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty was signed in Washington amidst much fanfare on March 26, but the vital question of whether an enduring peace will come to the Middle East still remains unanswered...
...The United States appears intent on propping up Israel and Egypt as "moderate" barriers to radical movements in the area...
...Since the order of the day will be to amend the treaty, the peace movement will have a chance to propose an amendment of its own — one that both segments can support and on which they can collaborate...
...The piercing of that secrecy — not just by The Progressive but by all Americans — may be the key to our awakening to the danger of the H-bomb in our midst...
...In both Brazil and Chile, where the AFL-CIO carried the ball for the CIA, unions are virtually dead today, existing as little more than window dressing for the benefit of human rights bureaucrats in the State Department...
...Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin are to be commended, of course, for managing to set aside decades of hostility in reaching an accord that grants diplomatic recognition to Israel and phased restoration of the Sinai to Egypt...
...One prerequisite is willingness of the Palestinian Liberation Organization to set aside the threat — in word and deed — of a "holy war" against Israel...
...If this process of income redistribution continues along present lines, the economic and political inequalities in our society will widen at a calamitous rate...
...Without so much as breaking a single window, injuring a single person, or producing a single cancer symptom that could be diagnosed with certainty, the Three Mile Island accident produced lasting and irreversible effects...
...The explosive news program documented how our intelligence agencies used LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs to control behavior and were encouraged to "lie, kill and cheat, steal, deceive, rape, and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the all highest...
...The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists believes the pact should be ratified but wonders whether, in the course of "propitiating its vocal and hard-line opponents" through one concession after another, "the longed-for child" is not "being metamorphosed into a monster...
...In its present draft, the treaty has three sections — one which spells out the number of launchers, another which states an abstract set of principles for negotiations, and a third, the "protocol," which limits deployment of certain new weapons for a period of two to three years...
...It is this gross defect that the antiwar amendment would address...
...When Guild organizer Robert Steinke came back from a trip to Africa in 1976, however, he reported to Perlik that new initiatives were in order...
...The immediate issue is the role of secrecy in America's hydrogen bomb program — and the legality of making public what the Government calls "secret...
...They have known it in their minds...
...In his 1973 expose, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, former CIA operative Philip Agee identified AIFLD as an important covert action labor organizing tool for the CIA, and its then-special projects director, William C. Doherty, as one of the agency's most effective agents...
...Weighty fare Are you worried about the dangers of nuclear power...
...The ultimate meltdown of Metropolitan Edison's Three Mile Island Reactor Number Two was finally averted, but during the last four days of March, following the malfunction of a backup safety system, America and the world lived through the nightmare of imminent catastrophe, knowing it could happen at any moment...
...Following the revelations nine years earlier, the Guild had voted not to accept any more secret Government money, although open Federal funds were still authorized...
...Had the ultimate meltdown occurred in Pennsylvania, no element of the public would still be clinging to the notion — as some still do — that nuclear power has a future in the United States...
...Following their airing on CBS, the American people were aroused, Congress was spurred to action, and policy changes were made in our national food program and in the Pentagon's propaganda machine...
...The fear has yet to be awakened...
...Even at present levels — cancer kills some 400,000 Americans a year — cancer could become a significant political issue...
...Last October, the motion carried by a vote of 9-to-6...
...You might warn Arledge that you won't watch "Charlie's Angels" or buy Mop 'n Glo if he doesn't acknowledge your request...
...In Brazil in 1964, Doherty bragged on a Mutual Radio broadcast at the time, AIFLD graduates "were involved in the overthrow of the Goulart regime...
...Now a second American city — Madison, Wisconsin — has added its voice to that call, and by a margin of 65 per cent...
...Such a policy would probably not promote major U.S...
...Our current President, Jimmy Carter, owes much of his success in attaining the Presidency to the Trilateral Commission, an international power elite organization of which he is a member...
...The reality is that television, which could be one of the most powerful forces ever known for progressive social change, continues to undermine its own potential...
...Jeffrey Stein (Jeffrey Stein is Washington correspondent for the Boston Phoenix...
...Cancer does occur even in nature and life cannot be conducted without risk, but social and political action (or inaction) will determine who will face the greatest risks, and share the general level of risk that must be borne by society as a whole...
...In effect, therefore, it prohibits virtually nothing...
...The issue weighs in at just under five ounces...
...Recent Government-sponsored research has shown that only 10 to 20 per cent of the chemicals suspected of producing cancer actually do so in animal research...
...Fortunately, the Right may give the two segments of the peace movement an opportunity to collaborate...
...Paul Altmeyer, who produced "Mind Control" for ABC, assured me there was nothing "sinister" about the scheduling...
...Effective controls on prices, or even on profits, are not the answer...
...Mission: Mind Control," a ninety-minute ABC News Closeup, was a harsh expose of what our Government has been and is doing to its citizens...
...Several recent studies suggest that up to 90 per cent of all cancers are environmentally related, and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare reports that at least a quarter of this total can be attributed to conditions in the workplace...
...Strapped for money, struggling to rebuild its dwindling membership, suffering defeats at the hands of combat-ready management, the leadership of the Guild, in a move that has perplexed much of the rank and file, has voted to accept a $105,000 grant from the Agency for International Development to begin labor organizing programs in Latin America...
...These increased steel profits have not been used, however, to stimulate the U.S...
...More recent statistics show increases in both the incidence and death rates for most types of cancer in both men and women...
...The awakening of that fear is what is primarily at stake in the national debate that was precipitated in March by the reporting — and the suppressing — of this magazine...
...Corporate Squeeze Play domestic social spending, which will promote sufficient levels of unemployment and hardship to force reluctant unions to settle for 7 per cent wage increases...
...Government-sponsored labor operations have little value for working journalists in Latin America...
...The threat that such a movement might pose to the corporate power structure has not been ignored...
...In an interview with James MacGregor Burns — and confirmed by Jody Powell — Carter stated that if the Senate refuses to ratify SALT II, he "will on his own authority as Chief Executive observe the terms of a SALT agreement as long as he is President...
...One such amendment might instruct the President to renegotiate the terms so that Soviet Backfire bombers, now excluded, will be counted as part of the 2,250 allowable launchers, thus cutting down on the number of other Soviet weapons...
...First is the obvious confusion sown by those who have been urging their adherents to work for "zero nuclear weapons" but now tell them to support a treaty under which the United States will be allowed to increase its stockpile of deliverable strategic tions, the strategy of the conservatives will not be to reject the treaty outright but to peck away at it with amendments — as in the case of the Panama Canal Treaty — that would, if passed, make it unacceptable to the Soviets...
...Last year, the steel industry persuaded the Carter Administration to guarantee it $900 million in added profits through favorable tax and tariff treatment...
...As it is with nuclear power, so may it also be with nuclear weaponry, from which springs the technology of nuclear power...
...The Institute continues to concentrate on finding a "cure" for cancer, though research on environmental causes of cancer could prevent the loss of many lives right now...
...The Newspaper Guild's new arrangement with AIFLD, in fact, stands mainly as a sad commentary on the state of unions in Latin America, and as an indictment of our own role in helping the situation get that way...
...Though safe alternatives were available, the primary corporate concern was profitability...
...Unfortunately, tens of millions of other Americans also missed one of the few really important programs television has ever produced...
...It is simple once we understand that television is not designed to disseminate information but to turn a profit, and that television's lack of responsibility to the public will not change as long as the nation has leaders who are more beholden to the media executives than to the electorate...
...American policy has drawn the wrong Middle Eastern lesson from the "fall" of Iran...
...More fundamentally at issue — Judge Robert Warren put it more aptly than he realized in his decision to restrain The Progressive — is the right to life, the right of generations now imperiled by the world's continuing preparations for nuclear war...
...But remember, we are dealing with minds simple enough to permit and encourage the illegal drugging of American citizens...
...Each new referendum can make it more difficult for President Carter and his corporate allies to support a huge military establishment...
...Business Week reports that many business leaders are disturbed by the low level of profits in recent years...
...Recent interviews with Guild members and officials failed to pry loose a clear explanation of why and how the leadership connected with AID and AIFLD to get the ball rolling in Latin America...
...but not until now have they known it in their gut...
...Only that reality can awaken the public's gut fear of nuclear war...
...It was from such strands that the nation's trauma was woven...
...There's a lot more in it just like that...
...Wages are to be kept low through the "voluntary guideline" program, which will help employers resist labor demands, and through cuts in steel competitors...
...Since World War II we have seen the introduction of a wide variety of new production techniques and products...
...An enduring peace...
...It is that aspect which demands correction...
...However understated and ambivalent the Administration's intentions, it is clearly following the corporate logic of squeezing labor to increase profit margins...
...This immodest proposal might appear to be a simple solution to what many will surely regard as a complex problem...
...The new move to "get our team on the field," as one Guild internal memorandum puts it, began in 1976...
...Carl Jensen (Carl Jensen is an associate professor of sociology at Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California, and the director of Project Censored, an annual national media research project...
...If, as at Three Mile Island, the trauma of that gut realization is sufficient, we may not need the final object lesson of nuclear war itself...
...Heavy investments have also been made in South Africa, so that our multinational steel firms can take full advantage of the low-wage victims of apartheid...
...ABC merely was trying to get the program on the air before publication of The Search for "the Manchurian Candidate,'" the book by John Marks, former State Department intelligence officer, on which the program was based...
...Louis Post-Dispatch, who was wrongfully accused of being a CIA agent by communist guerrillas who captured him in Cambodia in 1970...
...This modification of the treaty would not only place actual limits on the arms race, but would be in accord with the original purpose of SALT, as conceived in 1964...
...More than just a First Amendment right is at stake, important though that is...
...But American support for a peace process which has, so far, excluded the Palestinians only adds to Palestinian militance and lends legitimacy to the claim of paramilitary groups to speak for those who are prevented from effectively speaking for themselves...
...At that time, neutral diplomats, having lost hope of negotiating a disarmament agreement between the superpowers, proposed that for the time being they should at least agree to a "freeze" or moratorium — and they sold the idea to Lyndon B. Johnson...
...But to combat the squeeze play will require more than simple opposition to the Carter program...
...It is one thing to say, as scientists have been saying since 1957 and as industry and Government have acknowledged, that the cooling system can fail in a nuclear reactor, that the superheated fuel core can then melt down, that the containment building can be ruptured by the explosive contact of the molten core with the groundwater, that massive amounts of radiation can be released into the atmosphere, that thousands can die, that property worth billions of dollars can be destroyed, that contamination can cover an area the size of Pennsylvania...
...Many of us had a feeling that we had been had...
...Sidney Lens (Sidney Lens is a contributing editor of The Progressive...
...Just days after these mind-boggling figures had been made available, the Department of Labor reported that the Consumer Price Index rose by 1.2 per cent in February, which would translate into an annual inflation rate of almost 15 per cent...
...Big business has widely promoted the view that life in any society is full of risks and that "virtually anything" can cause cancer...
...In crossing that line in recent days, at Three Mile Island in the Susquehanna River, we may have bade farewell to nuclear power as a continuing energy option in the United States...
...The American Petroleum Institute, the industry's trade association, hints at the real corporate blackmail going on when it tells us that decontrol of oil would once again make refinery production profitable...
...Such might tragically prove to be the case for American journalists who regularly travel in Latin America, sometimes in the company of revolutionary groups whose side of the story they want to get...
...One top Guild official who backed the idea explained merely that the Government let it be known "the cash was available...
...By now, I would hope that you are a little upset or, perhaps, even angry enough to say, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more...
...a Catholic priest — as if ministering to passengers on a sinking ship — granted general absolution to all who might need it...
...First of all, what kind of "labor organization" has such a business flavor...
...But it would have a far better chance of promoting a lasting peace...
...The clout such corporate groups can muster is demonstrated by the tiny portion of cancer research funding devoted to workplace and environmental causes of cancer...
...What kind of help the Guild will be extending to Latin American unionists is another question...
...It pulled no punches in revealing how the OSS, CIA, and Army and Navy intelligence groups have physically and mentally destroyed unwitting Americans in their never-ending efforts to develop mind and behavior control techniques...
...Mission: Mind Control" compares favorably with the 1968 "Hunger in America" and the 1970 "Selling of the Pentagon" documentaries, both unique in American television history...
...Never before has America or any other society suffered quite that kind of shock in quite that way...
...Altmeyer also referred to the "fierce rating war" in which all three networks are engaged as another reason it was not scheduled during prime time...
...But be careful before you pick it up...
...The treaty requires both sides to open negotiations on Palestinian "autonomy" in the West Bank and Gaza, but "autonomy" is an incredibly vague term and provides no guarantee that the Palestinians will be able to exercise the independence and self-determination to which they aspire...
...In 1977, less than 5 per cent of the National Cancer Institute funds were budgeted for such study...
...civil defense officials spoke of evacuating tens of thousands — even hundreds of thousands — to who knew where and for who knew how long...
...The politics of cancer Figures released by the National Cancer Institute late last fall showed that from 1973 to 1976, the years covered by its most recent comprehensive study, there was an annual increase of 1 to 2 per cent in the rate at which people are developing all kinds of cancer...
...Those antiwar forces that oppose SALT II — including The Progressive, Inquiry magazine, the War Resisters League, Pax Christi, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Senators Mark Hatfield and George McGovern, and many individuals like me — are in a dilemma...
...Since then, unfortunately, SALT has not adopted a moratorium approach but one of "escalation in tandem...
...For information on how to do it, write Don Behm, Madison Peace & Jobs Referendum Committee, 8 South Carroll Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53703...
...Though the Administration complains about exorbitant profit rates, it asserts that arbitrary controls on profits are not appropriate...
...To keep major corporations from telling us how and when we will have the goods we need will require a program and a movement which insist that corporate investment decisions be made responsive to such social needs as full employment, environmental safety, and stable communities...
...Furthermore, the extraordinarily complex question of Jerusalem is still to be resolved in a way that satisfies the concerns of all religious groups...
...In any event, U.S...
...In sum, while profits and prices continue to surge, the average American lost almost 1 per cent in real income in one month alone...
...The trouble with the protocol is that almost all the weapons to which it refers will not be ready for deployment in those two or three years...
...Nor is it true that "anything," whether in large or small doses, will produce cancer in rats or man...
...If you don't have the time, inclination, or interest in writing a letter, don't complain when you, or one of yours, or some other unsuspecting American falls victim to our own "intelligence" system...
...Unfortunately, we have traveled this route before...
...Despite its protestations to the contrary, the Administration is obviously looking to labor to make the "sacrifices" that will bring a return to economic health...
...each new step in the arms race adds to the national insecurity...
...These two earlier documentaries showed the potential television has to create a public reaction which can lead to national policy changes...
...Tell him to reschedule "Mission: Mind Control" in prime time, so that the many millions who missed the program would have a chance to see what our "intelligence" agencies are doing to us with the tax dollars we pay them...
...In fact, it might even have prodded you to take some action...
...Here's welcome reassurance from Professor Bernard L. Cohen of the University of Pittsburgh, interviewed in a recent issue of National Review...
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...military and corporate interests in the region...
...Many of us had a feeling — perhaps all of us had a feeling — of revulsion, disgust...
...Buried in that issue are the bombs themselves — protected and preserved, safeguarded and nurtured by official secrecy...
...Jimmy Carter himself has deflated this fear...
...The AIFLD board's chairman is Peter Grace, whom Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet affectionately dubbed "the Golden Bridge" last winter after Grace personally intervened to engineer a postponement of a planned AFL-CIO shipping boycott of Chilean goods...
...The trauma of Three Mile Island suggests that we may no longer need that final object lesson...
...It would have outraged you...
...Newspaper Guild guerrillas As if it didn't have enough problems, the American Newspaper Guild is going hunting for trouble south of the border...
...From all indicaThat determined but diverse group of Americans opposed to militarism and war is severely divided, as the moment for decision draws near, over what to do about the pending SALT II treaty...
...Success of the Madison "peace and jobs" referendum is fresh evidence that Americans are beginning to recognize the arms race as a threat to their well-being...
...The American Friends Service Committee, expressing what is probably the majority view in the peace movement, wants the treaty ratified even though, as it ruefully notes, SALT II "will not stop the arms race and will permit the development of major new destabilizing weapons systems such as the Trident submarine, cruise missile, and MX...
...Today, Perlik is the Guild's president...
...The moratorium amendment would unite rather than djvidp, and would inject some spirit into an antiwar movement that is, at the moment, all too listless...
...It has been especially vehement in criticizing animal tests as a method of determining the carcinogenic status of particular chemicals...
...There remains the serious risk that the colonial status of the Palestinians will remain fundamentally unchanged...
...The problem of carcinogens in the workplace, the food chain, the air, the water are truly social in nature and can be dealt with only by political action...
...Members of the AIFLD board have included the presidents of Anaconda Copper, Pan American Airways, True Temper Corp., and W.R...
...Grace and Co., names synonymous in Latin America with "Yankee Imperialism...
...The obvious and growing magnitude of the cancer problem has prompted some commentators to speak ominously, though rather vaguely, of a "cancer epidemic...
...Our argument is simple and impeccably logical: SALT II does not deserve our support because it is arms escalation, not arms limitation...
...But cogent as this contention is, it has not unified the peace movement...
...It is quite another thing to come face to face not with such truisms but with the reality that underlies them — the reality of nuclear weapons...
...Still another might permit the United States to deploy heavy missiles comparable to the 308 the Soviets will have, without giving up anything in return...
...It is quite another thing to come face to face not with uncertain possibilities but with the event itself...
...The hawks, centered around the Committee on the Present Danger, are unhappy with SALT II because it does not weaken Soviet power or enhance American power to the point where Russia would be vulnerable to a surprise first strike...
...By ignoring important social issues or, as in this case, by scheduling an important documentary at a time when most Americans would not see it, television fails to meet its responsibility to the American public...
...Peace and Jobs Last November, the people of San Francisco voted by a margin of 61 per cent to ask the President and Congress to cut the military budget and spend the money on jobs instead...
...Each billion dollars spent on capital-intensive armament projects costs about 14,000 jobs...
...The 1967 revelations made newspapermen and women blanch...
...There are two difficulties with this line of argument...
...A SALT moratorium warheads (including cruise missiles) from 9,000 to 13,754, and the Soviet Union from 4,000 to 8,124...
...There is a critical dividing line between those two forms of knowledge...
...Several pointed questions will be brought up...
...This close call may have been enough to decide the question...
...They assert that if such testing is allowed to continue, many popular consumer items will be forced out of the marketplace...
...No matter what individual or political steps we take, cancer will remain a threat...
...But "Mind Control" didn't have nearly the impact it could have had, since it was broadcast from 11:30 P.M...
...The peace movement should insist on a moratorium as an absolute minimum condition of ratification...
...Toward this end, the Carter Administration has pledged almost $5 billion above the current level of grants to both nations in the next three years — much of it for arms...
...In the past, AIFLD's key trained operatives have been active in coups and counter-coups throughout Latin America...
...Dissident members of the Guild vow to reopen the question at the annual convention this July in Providence, Rhode Island...
...United States Steel is using some of its capital right now to build steel mills in Spain, and it will commit almost $2 billion in the next ten years for iron ore development in Brazil...
...Another amendment might lift restrictions on longer-range ground and sea cruise missiles, in which the United States now has a major lead...
...The risk of nuclear accidents is like the risk from being overweight, says Professor Cohen...
...as "perhaps the single most important issue of the magazine ever published...
...Mission: Mind Control' If you happened to miss "Mission: Mind Control" on television last January 30, do not feel bad...
...Shifting corporate funds from such areas as military spending, real estate investment, and overseas expansion to such areas of social need as urban housing and mass transit could create more jobs and stable prices...
...Second is the gratuitous assumption that without a treaty each side will deploy even more new weapons than are currently contemplated...
...Though full democratic control over corporate investment is not an achievable goal now, proposals for community development funds, credit allocation, and worker control over pension fund assets would be steps in the right direction...
...But there is a still more important point to consider in the politics of cancer: Dr...
...If corporations planning to relocate were required to file social impact statements and hold public hearings, this would be another way to demonstrate graphically the impact of corporate investment decisions on all of us...
...But a rejection of SALT II, the AFSC reasons, "would encourage even greater escalation of the arms race by both the U.S.S.R...
...While calling the data on profits "almost as much of a catastrophe as the January wholesale price jump," Presidential adviser Alfred Kahn still expressed the hope that labor would show restraint in upcoming contract negotiations...
...instead, they have gone in large measure to raw material extraction and new steel mills in Third World nations...
...Just as the public has now acquired a new gut fear of nuclear power, it may be on the verge of a new understanding of nuclear weaponry as a result of coincidental circumstances that are detailed extensively in this issue...
...Yet animal testing is the only practical way of determining the cancer-causing potential of a given substance...
...on a Tuesday night — a time when we could expect most prime-time television viewers to be safely asleep...
...life came to a standstill in the nearby towns...
Vol. 43 • May 1979 • No. 5
