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That it requires a "celebrity" dissident like Kim to bring South Korea's atrocities to our attention is sad enough in itself. The problem does not begin with Kim, nor will it end unless the U.S. decides to get on the side of democratic change in South Korea, by publicizing dissidents' claims and working through international channels to boost progressive elements...
...most serious cases of ground-water pollution confirmed so far have been in the Northeast states, where the problem is largely the result of surface dumping of industrial wastes, and in California from agricultural chemicals. But awareness of the vulnerability of ground water is still so new that EPA officials do not really know how far the fouling of the aquifers has spread. Says Costle: "We cannot even begin to say how much of our drinking water, actual or potential, may have been contaminated. We are going to be doing a lot of detective work...
...makes a bucketful of appearances touting his famous fried chicken for Heublein, Inc. The colonel's secret recipe: he just doesn't let birthdays ruffle his feathers. Besides, says Sanders, "90 is a good landmark to start from. I'm planning to reach 100 with no problem at all." Just the sort of Gray Panther gumption that Democratic Congressman Claude Pepper, 80, chairman of the Select Committee on the Aging, likes to hear from his elders. In fact, most times he can get downright salty over what he calls "agism"-discrimination against the elderly. At the birthday...
They are ordinary people, if by that one means that they enjoy conventional middle-class prosperity and adhere to traditional family values. If the problem that the Jarrett family faces-an adolescent son trying to recover from a mental breakdown signaled by a suicide attempt-is perhaps an extreme one, it is hardly unknown in bourgeois America. Nor are the tensions that have been moving for a long time beneath the surface of the Jarretts' existence-an inability to express genuine affection or even speak frankly-exactly exotic...
...school reopened last week, Dormitory Counselor Philip Lance had only one problem: "There's some guy at the end of the floor who I think is chewing tobacco." Lance will just talk with the misguided fellow this time, but if the chewing persists he could face expulsion. By modern campus standards, it is a quaint worry, but Illinois' Wheaton College is unabashed in preserving a Garden of Eden moralism that has long since vanished from most campuses. Wheaton ground rules: no cheating, no racial prejudice, no tobacco, no alcohol, no drugs, no gambling-and no social dancing either...