Report Card
REPORT CARD r Behind Closed Doors A WORLD OF PREFERENCE: BUSINESS ACCESS TO REAGAN'S REGULATORS by Robert Nelson Democracy Project, 145 East 49th Street, Suite 9D, New York, NY 10017....
...chart U.S...
...one of the changes was the addition of the word "voluntary" to the agency's final recommendations...
...Because events are moving so quickly in Central America, some sections of this report are out of date...
...A Spanish language version of this report is also available from NARMIC...
...assistance to repressive governments...
...A World of Preference concludes with proposals for keeping the regulatory process open to inspection...
...In their zeal to deregulate, they have encouraged, if not institutionalized, a process of secret and one-sided business influence...
...How does American industry spell "relief...
...Ex parte communications—secret meetings and memoranda—"represent business-as-usual for Reagan's regulators," Robert Nelson and Democracy Project President Mark Green write in their introduction to A World of Preference...
...For example, the Environmental Protection Agency took a 1982 letter from three wood preservers' trade groups and adopted it as "our new proposal" for the regulation of wood preserving pesticides...
...The authors sketch brief histories of each major conflict...
...Some of the dirty dealings have been reported in the press...
...map the large U.S...
...Many of the cases would be ludicrous if they did not pose such a serious threat to the well-being of American workers and consumers...
...In only eleven pages, the staff of NARMIC (a project of the American Friends Service Committee) describes the role our Government is playing in Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, and the Caribbean...
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...military presence in the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and Pacific Ocean, and list U.S...
...Nonetheless, all of the information is useful, particularly to understand the history behind whatever barbarity the Reagan Administration perpetrates today or tomorrow...
...The conditions which led to the massive insurrection in Nicaragua are similar to those existing in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras," the report points out...
...others, revealed for the first time, were ascertained from internal agency memos and appointment calendars obtained through the Freedom of Information Act...
...The authors make clear that American military might cannot destroy the indigenous roots of unrest—not M-113A1 armored personnel carriers, "Huey" helicopters, MK82 500-pound bombs, M-67 fragmentation hand grenades, or even A-37B Dragonfly jet aircraft...
...The point is not that industry access should be limited...
...In another instance, EPA officials allowed representatives of a major phosphate company to make "corrections" in a draft policy letter on phosphates...
...war games that have been conducted in the Caribbean since 1981...
...rather, it is that such access must be on-the-record so that the public is knowledgeable," notes Nelson...
...Nelson details thirty-five separate instances of secret industry-agency contacts that affected rules or policies of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and, not surprisingly, the Environmental Protection Agency...
...MILITARY BUILDUP by the staff of National Action/Research on the Military Industrial Complex NARMIC/AFSC, 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102...
...catalog the U.S.-supplied weapons being used in the region...
...According to this report by the Democracy Project, a public-interest research organization, business executives find relief from regulation by secretly lobbying Government decision-makers...
...Alliance for Regress THE CENTRAL AMERICAN WAR: A GUIDE TO THE U.S...
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...For centuries poverty and suffering have been the fate of the peasant majority...
Vol. 48 • January 1984 • No. 1
