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...Completed ratification of Panama Canal Treaties...
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Another look at Love Canal...
When President Carter approved the relocation of some 700 families from the Love Canal area in Niagara Falls, N.Y., last May, he acted on the assumption that the old chemical dump site was, in the words of a New York State report, a "public health time bomb." But just how severely have the people of Love Canal been imperiled? Reviewing the scientific findings to date, a panel of distinguished doctors has now issued a surprising verdict. In its view, no scientific evidence has been offered that the people of Love Canal have suffered "acute health effects" from exposure...
...controls or reviews by independent scientists before it was released. That breach of standard scientific practice, said the panel, "was a disservice to the citizens most intimately concerned and to the public at large." The panel also found fault with an investigator who hinted at nerve damage among Love Canal residents: "Equivocal or ambiguous observations are likely to do more harm than good...