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COMMENT Buying time Just a few days before the attempt on President Reagan's life pushed most of the Administration's foreign and domestic policies off the front pages and out of public...
...This subsidy from U.S...
...Export of raw materials...
...Hayakawa expressed "grave reservations" about Watt's intentions, and sided with others who want to lock up the coast for the single purpose of keeping it the way it is...
...policy toward El Salvador and most of the rest of the Third World...
...It will take more time than had been anticipated to lay the proper groundwork here at home for large-scale military meddling in Central America, or elsewhere...
...Those who wish to join in the Mother's Day demonstration should contact the Women's Party for Survival, 7 Gilmore Street, Everett, Massachusetts 02149...
...William Steif (William Steif, a national correspondent for the Scripps-Howard newspapers, returned recently from assignment in Havana...
...At eight of these stockpiles, more than 1,000 defective weapons are slowly leaking their poisonous contents...
...Should there be an accidental explosion, they insist, any chemical agents released would dissipate and become non-toxic before they reached any populated area...
...In order to avoid economic drag, the rebates would have to be concurrent with the tax collections...
...According to the President's Council on Environmental Quality, 5 to 15 per cent of the world's bird species could become extinct in the next twenty springs—victims of traumatic environmental change...
...Initiated in 1947 as part of the Truman Administration's "loyalty program," the list became a notorious weapon of the Cold War years—a litmus test of loyalty...
...We will say nothing...
...In a carefully orchestrated campaign replete with "background briefings," "white papers," intelligence leaks, and "captured documents," the State Department, Department of Defense, National Security Council, and Federal intelligence agencies all did their best to persuade Americans that El Salvador was our last line of defense against invading Soviet hordes...
...fThe vast majority of the ten million Cubans support Castro because no one is hungry in Cuba today, most people can read and write, health care is good, and Castro has given the Cubans pride that their Pennsylvania-sized island can project power and influence thousands of miles away...
...It didn't work...
...Wheeling and dealing to get more ports built and dredged, preferably at public expense, the coal industry (increasingly the oil industry in disguise) is readying itself for massive exports of American coal, much of it dug out of Federal lands...
...Only five known survivors, all male, are left of that species, singing their days out in a Florida cage...
...Jan Allen (Jan Allen is a free-lance editor in Wilmington, Illinois...
...It may surprise the Secretary of the Interior to learn that it is no longer considered extreme to oppose resource development for the single purpose of preventing environmental degradation...
...That theory is inconsistent with the fact that copies of his manuscript have been circulated to publishers...
...Although the exact size of the chemical arsenal remains a classified secret, several unclassified documents indicate it contains between 30,000 and 42,000 tons of mustard and nerve gases, stored at a dozen locations scattered around the globe...
...Mother's Day was initially envisioned by women's suffrage and peace activist Julia Ward Howe as a holiday "devoted to the advocacy of peace doctrines...
...It now seems likely that the incipient U.S...
...We understand the genesis of life...
...dependency, even though it is only ninety miles from Key West, Florida, to Cuba's Pinar Del Rio Province...
...Of these, the Duarte government is the only one that promises to lead a transition to full constitutional order...
...Women have to take the lead9 When the Women's Party for Survival marches at the Pentagon on Mother's Day, the marchers will be recapturing the original spirit of the day...
...Mothers, who give life, cannot go on silently accepting the possibility of a war that would destroy all life...
...The lethal leakers have given the Army headaches before, most notably a 1968 accident in Utah which killed 6,400 sheep and, in the same year, the disclosure that the Pentagon had been towing the weapons out to sea on old ships and sinking the entire mess...
...A physical chemist who helped clean up the stricken nuclear plant, Thompson saw what he regarded as an outrageous attempt to hide the hazard the plant posed to public safety...
...We have only a few years before the nuclear arms race is utterly out of control," Caldicott says...
...And should the unthinkable major accident actually happen, every facility storing chemical warfare munitions has a thick "Chemical Accident-Incident Control Plan" filled with evacuation plans and secret code words for notifying local civil defense workers...
...The accident, sinister to people already fearful, became more so in late February when Randall S. Thompson, his wife Maryann, and his children Tasha, eleven, and Stephen, nine, disappeared...
...If the Reagan Administration follows the Council's advice and if Congress approves, the Government would do nothing in the face of daily shortfalls of up to three million barrels of oil, with resulting increases of as much as 1,000 per cent in the price of gasoline...
...Subsequent phone calls to the Department of Justice in Washington and the Naval News Desk at the Pentagon produced the official response: Neither the Navy nor civilian branches of the Government have used the list since the mid-1970s...
...That the public—or, at least, that portion of the public which expresses its views by writing to the President—should be so overwhelmingly opposed to the Administration's preparations for a new Vietnam in Central America was remarkably good news...
...Despite his limited appreciation for the integrity of undeveloped land in which he has no apparent per: sonal stake, the President's sentiments toward the 688 acres that he owns are no different from those of others who want to preserve the wildness of their mountains, the pure air and simple quiet of their deserts, or the stark beauty of their coastlines...
...Why this is a desirable prospect was explained in a recent Wall Street Journal column by Eliot R. Cutler, formerly of the Office of Management and Budget for Natural Resources, Energy and Science, and now with a law firm in Washington, D.C...
...John Gofman, the California scientist noted for his expertise in radiation and his outspokenness on nuclear issues, said, "It's an absurd statement...
...The dusky sparrow, its habitat destroyed by drainage and flooding of Florida marshes, joins a rapidly lengthening line of birds bound for extinction...
...But coal exports would buy more than economic dominance, he noted: We could use coal, as the Arabs use oil, to make fast political ties, especially with those countries whose resources we need...
...But if the shoft-term danger is receding, the long-term danger is great and growing...
...In mid-March, Under Secretary of State Walter J. Stoessel was obliged to assure the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that "El Salvador is not another Vietnam...
...When no birds sing With the coming of spring, scientists in Florida are keeping their eyes on the sparrows—hoping to find a female dusky sparrow to keep dusky sparrows alive...
...low-wage work is increasingly concentrated in industries that do nothing to advance the Salvadoran economy, but that do, effectively, steal jobs from U.S...
...The munitions were designed to have an average shelf life of five to ten years, and most are now at least that old...
...The forgotten stockpile It is the stockpile too often overlooked in the age of nuclear overkill...
...Just to be sure, the Army says doctors and decontamination crews will be present, and wind and weather conditions will be monitored...
...Dr...
...Ironically, Com Ed's operating engineers have gone on strike because the utility, following a common practice in the nuclear industry, has brought in contractors to renovate one of the units...
...Exporting America While the Reagan Administration plans the lease of more Federal coal lands to meet the nation's energy needs, foreign ships have lined up at our ports to haul off our coal...
...But women did oppose both the Korean and Vietnam wars in greater numbers than men, and they were less eager than men to intervene militarily after the hostages were seized in Iran...
...The Catholic Church was outspokenly skeptical...
...Token "reform" is intended to create a small group of elite peasants whose example can be used as a buffer against, more fundamental redistribution of wealth and restructuring of the economy...
...Officials are trying to convince the public that the cleanup will be safe...
...David Morrissey (David Morrissey is a reporter for The Anniston Star in Alabama...
...to turn America into an energy colony...
...Cengia reluctantly decided to withdraw as co-author of this piece...
...In an era when warheads are tallied in megatons, these weapons are measured in liters, milliliters, and even drops...
...See no evil When a worker at Commonwealth Edison's Dresden Nuclear Power Station near Morris, Illinois, was exposed recently to an overdose of radiation, the utility went all the way to the University of Pennsylvania to find a medical consultant who would say that the radiation was "not an unusually high exposure from a medical point of view...
...It is money that is used to avert collapse of an economy that is as irrational as it is unjust...
...Those preferences, it turns out, did not disappear with the election of the new Administration...
...Cutler himself sees the next two or three decades as a transition to a world run on renewable sources of energy...
...One is no longer branded a heretic for opposing growth or for admitting a fierce love of the land as it is...
...But I believe if enough of us get moving, we can certainly stop it...
...The consequence would be pauperization of virtually everyone except the truly rich...
...Gallup polls last year also found women disapproved more of growing military budgets, a renewed draft, and tough dealings with the Soviet Union...
...Everybody has his own Shangri-la, his own way of getting away," said Reagan, "and this is ours...
...Boston pediatrician Helen Caldicott, who last year gave up her practice to found the Women's Party for Survival, has noted that "women react to the nuclear threat very powerfully...
...It was used to screen Governmental employes (and others) until 1974, when Richard M. Nixon decreed in Executive Order No...
...By the time the first few dozen U.S...
...He became frightened enough to move with his family to Taos, New Mexico...
...A buildup of coal exports is not in the people's best interest...
...As the weapons age, their metal walls and welding seals can deteriorate, allowing the chemical inside to escape...
...Now, is Linnemann saying it's OK to kill ten out of 100 or one out of ten people...
...Hayakawa, normally a champion of petroleum exploration activities...
...it is in the interest of the energy companies, which want to keep the world addicted to their products...
...The regular employes are not happy about that: They want the extra pay that comes with extra radiation exposure...
...Do President Reagan and his surrogates know this...
...Were the Thompsons abducted (or worse) because Thompson knew too much...
...We must resist today those policies—including "economic" as well as military aid—that will make military intervention all but inevitable in the future...
...After all, the new Secretary had warned the nation against "environmental extremists" who would "stop growth or lock up our resources for a single purpose What may have been a surprise to the Secretary was the furor his announcement created...
...We wonder how many closets still hold this old skeleton, and how often it is still brought out to rattle its bones at those less wary than Petty Officer Cengia...
...Interests Section" on Havana's waterfront Malecon Boulevard...
...In short, coal would give America what she lost in Vietnam and the 1973 oil embargo—clout in the world...
...The Reagan Administration has to learn all of this...
...The railroad worker whose legs were severed in an accident on the job was just as "free" as the railroad that refused to compensate him...
...Neither did some influential members of Congress...
...Police said the accident occurred because Thompson was driving too fast, but Busey's widow said he was run off the road by another vehicle...
...There will be no U.S...
...For the first time, women have to take the lead...
...Patience in Havana The worst is over now, the Cubans think...
...The remainder of the weapon, usually containing an explosive charge and propellant, is decontaminated and exploded...
...we have the babies...
...There will be no exploration for gas and oil on the President's ranch, but no one would blame him for opposing such a venture...
...Whatever the explanation, their experience reminds us that the full trauma of an event like the accident at Three Mile Island cannot be measured in millirems...
...The chemical agents are then withdrawn and stored for later destruction or reuse...
...COMMENT Buying time Just a few days before the attempt on President Reagan's life pushed most of the Administration's foreign and domestic policies off the front pages and out of public consciousness, the White House released a fascinating statistic: It said the President's mail was running ten-to-one against U.S...
...The forms included a copy of the old Attorney General's List and questions about her involvement with the organizations on it...
...But DATS gives rise to one safety problem that no number of experts and evacuation plans can solve...
...We will keep a very low profile for a while," says a Cuban Foreign Ministry official...
...That is the simple-minded scenario that has been accepted by most of the media and that is taken for granted even by the Administration's critics in and out of Congress...
...In Taos, an acquaintance of the family even speculated that the disappearance may simply be an attempt to call attention to the book, but dismissed that theory because, he said, the family would have told Charles Busey's widow Barbara, who is now the book's custodian...
...They point out DATS will be used at isolated locations on only one munition at a time...
...HCuba, in the words of a Foreign Ministry official in Havana, "is not like Nicaragua—we don't need U.S...
...The Salvadoran "land reform" backed by the United States is not designed to eliminate such gross inequities but to perpetuate them...
...free-trade zones" outlaw strikes and exempt business from taxation...
...Clearly El Salvador was deliberately chosen by the Reagan Administration as the test case—and the showcase— of its new, "get tough" foreign policy...
...The Reagan Administration's bluster about Cuba shipping arms to El Salvador's rebels has enabled President Reagan, Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Presidential Counselor Edwin Meese III, and their aides to be perceived as talking "tough" to communists...
...The rational short-term response to such a situation is price controls and rationing...
...Sidney Lens (Sidney Lens is a contributing editor of The Progressive...
...But Com Ed's workers, like others in the nuclear industry, face the dilemma of choosing between threats to their lives and threats to their economic well-being...
...But while America's chemical warfare arsenal seldom receives the attention accorded the nation's vast array of nuclear bombs, it nonetheless contains a frightening collection of some of the most toxic substances known...
...Or the Black Dragon Society...
...military advisers" had been dispatched to El Salvador, the opposition here at home was mobilizing to an extent achieved only after years of deepening U.S...
...Then he was threatened, he told relatives...
...By the 1990s," Agis Salpukas reported in The New York Times, "the world will be looking to the United States as the key producer, the Saudi Arabia of coal...
...workers...
...A docile work force...
...when the canaries died, the miners knew it was time to look to their own safety...
...Neither the United States nor the world can afford to invest in both a coal future and a future based on renewable energy...
...Neither has worked perfectly in past emergencies, but decent fairness has been preserved and unbridled profiteering prevented...
...Because of the large sums involved, the failure of the recycling scheme, at a time when the nation was attempting to cope with the physical problems caused by the oil shortage, would produce unprecedented economic chaos: Other major economic sectors could collapse like dominoes...
...It's the old "rugged individualism," and we have heard it all before...
...In the old days, coal miners took canaries into the mines to alert them to explosive gases...
...While there is little public support for a military solution in El Salvador, there is hardly any questioning of the political assumptions that continue to guide U.S...
...While a shortfall of the magnitude considered in this report is not an ordinary event, given the instability of the Middle East it is far from impossible...
...In the name of eliminating our present threat of peacetime leaks, the Army's cleanup brings us a step closer to the greater threat of chemical war...
...With DATS, a leaker is placed inside a sealed and airtight chamber...
...Forceful leadership to avert a crippling coal strike...
...The unemployed—and there were tens of millions laid off in some twenty depressions before 1929—were free to find charitable help, or to starve...
...he let the word out that he was writing a book...
...Instead of allowing fossil fuel scarcity to stimulate conservation and rapid development of renewable energy sources, he wants to enlarge the old fossil fuel system, which depends on the old fossil fuel companies...
...Those were just a few of the names on the old Attorney General's List of "subversive" organizations...
...involvement in Vietnam...
...mustard gas can cause unusually slow-healing burns, genetic damage, and cancer...
...military adventure in El Salvador will stop far short of what was contemplated just a few weeks ago—at least for the time being...
...The volume of rebates would exceed the current volume of Social Security payments, perhaps by a large multiple...
...naval blockade, the Cubans believe...
...11785 that "the list of organizations previously designated is hereby abolished and shall not be used for any purpose...
...If we choose one, we will not have the other...
...The California State Assembly has asked him to honor Andrus's commitment to keep the four sites along the scenic coastline off limits to drilling...
...She, described as "real, real scared," has gone into hiding...
...In his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Under Secretary of State Stoessel offered this neat formulation: "There are three alternatives in El Salvador today—the forces of the extreme Right, the forces of the extreme Left, and the present government...
...He became obsessed with the need to tell what he knew...
...Nerve gas can cause "vomiting, cramps, involuntary defecation and urination, twitching, jerking, staggering, headache, confusion, drowsiness, coma . . . convulsion . . . and death...
...He even wants to spread it to developing nations...
...The energy companies are ready, apparently, to take up the White Man's Burden, right here at home...
...Loyalty list Remember the Silver Shirt Legion of America...
...But officials now say they have solved the problem with the Drill and Transfer System (DATS...
...The required legislation will not be enacted if the yells of dismay are loud enough...
...This scenario is one of those put forward in a National Petroleum Council (NPC) report which advocates a "free market" approach to future oil shortages...
...It is immensely comforting, of course, to realize that the lessons of Vietnam have not been forgotten by Americans, and that even the Reagan Administration, for all its trigger-happiness, may be capable of recognizing that reality...
...And the men who care should help...
...Oil company revenues would climb by up to $1 trillion—with after-tax profits of $200 billion in a shortfall lasting six months...
...it is nothing of the kind...
...Environmental 'extremists' It was scarcely a surprise when Secretary of the Interior James Watt moved to open up the North and Central California coastline to oil and gas exploration...
...And they have no intention of ending that kind of Government support...
...The rugged individualists There is a familiar ring to the rhetoric invoked by Ronald Reagan and his surrogates as they attempt to justify the Administration's atavistic economic doctrines...
...The draft version of the report by the Council, dominated by oil industry executives, has already received the enthusiastic support of Secretary of Energy James Edwards...
...Told that indeed it had been used, and very recently at that, the officer said sometimes Presidential executive orders do not filter down to the "worker bees" on the lowest levels of the bureaucracy...
...AID official described such land reform as a way to dole out small bribes of land and thus "breed capitalists like rabbits...
...It took thousands of demonstrations and strikes and hunger marches and the Great Depression of the 1930s to bury the doctrine of "rugged individualism" and create a new doctrine—that the Government must help the individual who has fallen victim to circumstances beyond his or her control...
...Documents from the Army, which manages the stockpiles, indicate that a major leak—caused either by accidents or sabotage—would be catastrophic...
...Although that idea has since been buried under an avalanche of floral arrangements and greeting cards, this is an appropriate time to revive the old concept...
...Meanwhile, when word got out that Cengia was working with me on this article, she was threatened with court martial under a Navy regulation that forbids sailors to "submit manuscripts to commercial publishers, on professional, political, or international subjects" without obtaining official approval...
...Frank Collins (Frank Collins is an energy consultant for the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union and a member of the NPC Coordinating Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness...
...policy is still to prop up the status quo—by economic means if possible, by military means if necessary—so that power will continue to be wielded by those who put the interests of multinational corporations ahead of the interests of their own people...
...Or the National Committee to Win Amnesty for Smith Act Victims...
...The problem is that it seems necessary for each new U.S...
...In tiny El Salvador, for example, foreign investment now exceeds $100 million...
...But Cutler also offered what he may regard as a more benevolent reason for increasing exports of American coal: The economy of America and the world "will sustain significant growth over the next two to three decades only if this growth in coal use and coal trade takes place...
...The area in question had been closed to development by Watt's predecessor at Interior, Cecil Andrus, who cited "the preferences and the well-being of people in coastal areas who may be affected by offshore oil and gas activities...
...There, last October, on a winding Taos Canyon Road, he was involved in a car accident in which his brother-in-law, Charles Busey, was fatally injured...
...And so it may be a practical matter for all of us to note the passing of birds...
...it wipes the Army's dirty slate clean...
...Cuba would like to trade with the United States because it needs machinery, medicines, consumer goods— but not at the price of becoming a quasi-colony again...
...14 a gallon Imagine: $14 for one gallon of gasoline...
...In Cleveland's day, that sort of sloganeering was accepted as gospel: Individuals were the masters of their own destinies, free to work out their problems without help or hindrance from the Government...
...Qavid R. Simon (David Simon is associate professor of sociology at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville...
...But even if it weren't, we would mourn their loss, and fear the coming of silent springs...
...The United States, Cutler wrote, can use its coal (nearly one-third of the world's economically recoverable reserves) to regain dominance in the world energy markets...
...The notion that women are instinctively pacific is neither new nor undisputed...
...Clausen joined with ten House colleagues in sending Watt a telegram which called his decision "a tragic mistake which the people of central and northern California will not tolerate...
...Roger Linnemann, associate professor of clinical radiology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, was quoted as saying the worker "should not have any physical problems now or in the future arid should not require any medical treatment...
...The family station wagon, key in the ignition, was found at a picnic ground a few miles from the cabin where they had been living...
...she also decided not to apply for Officer Candidate School, and she will get out of the Navy in October...
...A family using ten gallons a week would pay more than $3,000 for gasoline over a six-month period...
...The NPC report advocates recycling the increased revenues from the windfall profits tax—$500 billion to $800 billion—through the Internal Revenue Service, Social Security, and welfare systems...
...That doctrine has been only partially and poorly applied, but the principle is sound: In a -complex society, reliance on rugged individualism is at best a myth and at worst a rationalization for callous indifference to the plight of the powerless...
...Robert Leonard Reid (Robert Leonard Reid is the wilderness representative for the Loma Prieta chapter of the Sierra Club in California...
...There's an interesting contrast between the speed with which the Navy moved to cover up its mistake and the slow pace at which it has approached the task of clearing its files of the Attorney General's List...
...The worker's exposure to twenty-one rem (three rem per month are permitted in the nuclear industry) increased the worker's chances of getting cancer by at least 10 per cent, Gofman said...
...Sooner or later, such policies are bound to result in revolution—and the United States, committed everywhere to protecting the status quo, is bound to intervene militarily on the side of privilege, corruption, and exploitation...
...A man who knew too much The shock of Three Mile Island penetrated deep into the life of Randall S. Thompson...
...The Administration's emergency preparedness plan will have to be implemented by Congress...
...Asked to comment, Dr...
...But it is absurd to expect "a transition to full constitutional order" in a nation where 2 per cent of the population owns 60 per centpf the land, and where 65 per cent of the impoverished rural population owns no land at all...
...military intervention in El Salvador...
...To get the full, unsavory flavor of what massive coal exports would actually mean to Americans, consider the steps Cutler would like to see the Reagan Administration take to encourage them: U Fast-track approval of energy facilities (such as ports...
...Among the Californians who stood up against Watt in defense of the California coast was conservative Republican Senator S.I...
...The rational long-term response would be to build an energy-efficient society, a goal low on the list of Reagan priorities...
...to do to their own what they've done to others...
...The boards of supervisors of the eight counties affected have recorded their opposition to Watt's plan to open the area for bids by oil companies...
...unless we made our stand there, the dominoes would fall all the way to Dubuque, Iowa...
...That view from Havana may be unduly optimistic, but at least there seems to be little panic there about the new regime in Washington...
...It is, after all, such a bargain: With the United States importing oil at an average of $33 a barrel, Europe and the Far East have been paying the equivalent of $13 a barrel for American coal...
...Administration to learn all over again that: HCuba is a communist country, not a U.S...
...may make the kind of breakthrough in U.S.-Cuba relations that Richard M. Nixon achieved in U.S.-China relations because, like Nixon, they don't constantly have to prove how "tough" they are on communists...
...At the Jacksonville Naval Station, the base information officer allowed that the form was indeed still in the files of the Base Education Office, but was not being used...
...But George C. Eads of the Council of Economic Advisers has said in a letter to Charles Miller of the Office of Management and Budget: "The Federal Government has no experience with rebating money at the rate of hundreds of billions of dollars per year...
...The most likely explanation may be that the Thompsons sank into a pool of fear so deep that they believed disappearing was their only way to survive...
...That the White House disclosed the tally was even more encouraging, for it indicated, perhaps, that the Reagan Administration had learned something in its first few months in office: It had learned that Americans are not ready to plunge (or stumble) into the next Vietnam...
...The Army badly wants new chemical weapons—weapons that will not rust and rot—and it has been lobbying hard in Congress to get a new plant to build them...
...One U.S...
...So it does not suffice to resist only when the overt threat of military intervention is raised, as it recently was in El Salvador...
...As in Grover Cleveland's day, the issue is not whether the Government should support the people, but whether it should support anyone but the rich...
...Nor will the United States shut the "Cuban Interests Section" on Sixteenth Street in Washington or the "U.S...
...It pays its own way by bartering sugar, rum, tobacco, and nickel with the communist bloc, Mexico, and a few other countries...
...They know, surely, that the Government has always supported the powerful—whether by land grants to the railroads or by depletion allowances for the oil companies or by subsidies to the maritime industry or by tax breaks of one kind of another for virtually every kind of "private enterprise...
...That is the pattern emerging wherever indigenous oligarchies enjoy the benign support of our Government as members of the "free world...
...Before taking office, Reagan told a reporter that he intends to maintain the land on his 688-acre California ranch in its untamed natural state...
...A diamond-tipped bit drills a hole through the metal wall of the munition to the chemical warhead...
...But all done, the exporters say, for the good of the people, to make their economy grow and develop...
...Forgive our cynicism, but we do not believe Cutler has at heart the best interests of either America or the world, both of which would do better to concentrate on building economies which can be sustained when oil, gas, and cheap coal are depleted...
...In addition to its military assistance to the Salvadoran junta, the Reagan Administration will be providing substantial increases in "economic" aid—from less than $60 million in fiscal 1980 to about $100 million in fiscal 1982...
...There would not be time to wait for the tax to be collected and then turn it around...
...The people didn't buy it...
...Why, then, does he want more of the old way of doing things...
...Some Cubans think it's possible, a year or two down the road, that Reagan, Haig, Meese & Co...
...f Faster leasing of Western coal lands...
...So did the dean of California's Republican Cpngressional delegation, Representative Don Clausen, whose 24 per cent rating by the League of Conservation Voters is one of the lowest of any California Representative...
...Almost a century ago, in 1877, President Grover Cleveland vetoed a $10,000 drought relief bill with the words, "The people support the Government...
...taxpayers should not be misconstrued as humanitarian assistance to the starving masses of El Salvador...
...Even the mass media, usually eager to be taken into camp whenever the Government invokes the magic words "national security," were less gullible than is their custom...
...the Government should not support the people...
...Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida, was given forms to apply for admission to Officer Candidate School...
...Or did it...
...Our objectives are limited...
...Clearly that laid to rest the Attorney General's list...
...In March of this year, Paula Cengia, Petty Officer Third Class at the U.S...
...On the contrary, Americans routinely adopt this position when they believe that the quality of life in their communities is threatened by development activities...
...DATS plays a key role in achieving that goal...
...In El Salvador and elsewhere, the first goal of U.S...
...Devastation of national lands without thought for the nationals themselves or for their future...
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