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...Marilyn Leistner doesn't believe scientists anymore -- at least not the ones who once denounced dioxin but now downplay its dangers. Leistner was the last mayor of Times Beach, Mo., the town of 2,400 that the U.S. government evacuated and closed down in 1982 because it was contaminated with dioxin, considered by many to be one of the most fearsome of chemicals. The mayor saw dioxin's toxic effects all too clearly: the elderly forced out of their homes and into retirement centers, people so paranoid that every common illness was assumed to be dioxin poisoning, neighbors quarreling...
...dioxin truck, skidding and sliding in the thick oil slick. Joe's wife Penny Capstick remembers falling down in it. They all remember the children tracking it in. "I can remember Jeri Lynn as a child sitting by the road just kicking her feet in the stuff," says Marilyn Leistner, who lives near by. "Just kicking and kicking in the stuff." The richest memories have become images of menace. "That was a very nice home there," says Leistner, the town's final mayor, as she drove through Times Beach recently. "That whole wing was a game room paneled with imported...
...some deer. "It's amazing," says the former mayor, "all these yellow flowers! They were never here before." The wild growth, however, poses a problem: vandals, looters and arsonists can hide from the security patrols more easily. But that may be remedied. "I believe the state of Missouri," says Leistner, "is looking into defoliating...
...been flashing for all to see. The tragedy is that they have been dismissed as the workings of a few agitators or political activists, or as rumblings that could easily be contained. I desire peace for South Africa, but there can be no peace without justice." Added Professor Erich Leistner, deputy director of Pretoria's Africa Institute, an African-affairs study organization: "Sharpeville marked the first major self-assertion of black nationalism against white supremacy in South Africa. Last week's tragic events will probably go down in history as the beginning of an era where whites...
...Yards Hurdles--Won by Moore, Penn State; second, Leistner, Stanford; third, Dye, Southern California; fourth, Wolf, Penn; fifth, Scattergood, Princeton. Time...