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...ailments could prevent serious disability or death. The Centers for Disease Control asked for $4 million in the 1985 budget to notify vulnerable workers. But according to Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader and Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the Public Citizen Health Research Group, the Reagan Administration rejected that request. In a letter to the President last week, Nader and Wolfe wrote, "The lame excuse offered in defense of this unethical, immoral decision is 'there is no legal responsibility for NIOSH to notify...
...said he would request the tax refund by mail, explaining that "there is no real leagl" issue." "We are entitled to retroactive money paid under a mistake of law," he said...
...RECENT DECISION by Harvard's nine exclusive, all-male final clubs to continue their practice of excluding women from membership was not entirely surprising. But the request by the presidents of the clubs for more time to discuss the issue seems pointless. The clubs' presidents and members of their graduate boards have met extensively with Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, who has tried to persuade them to change their policy for a number of reasons. They are clearly not ready to do so, and this issue should no longer preoccupy any member of the Harvard administration...
...clubs has preoccupied both the CCL and College officials, especially Epps, for nearly a year. The CCL failed to take any definitive action at its first meeting last week because its new members wanted time to completely assess the situation. But the verdict is in; the clubs' request for "more time" to discuss the issue is merely a delaying tactic. Next Monday--by which time CCL members plan to have met with all the club presidents--is late enough to resolve the conflict. We urge both groups to take quick and final action: the final clubs don't merit closer...
...journalists, Morton Kondracke, executive editor of the New Republic, asked Reagan if he had not displayed the same weakness he accused Jimmy Carter of showing in the Iran hostage situation by not retaliating against the terrorist attacks. Reagan said the Marines had been sent to Lebanon at the request of that country's government as "a stabilizing force" and had been succeeding in that mission when the terrorist attacks began. He had "no apologies" for their mission, the President said. In one of his more effective presentations of the evening, Reagan underscored his humane intentions by insisting that...