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...Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration fear that the A.H.A. seal may foster simplistic notions about foods and imply some therapeutic benefit from specific brands. The USDA has banned use of the seal on meat products, including frozen dinners and entrees. "The program would have set up the idea of good foods and bad foods, and there is no scientific support for that," says Lester Crawford of the USDA. "There are good diets and bad diets...
...matter what the objections to the plan, everyone agrees there would be no need for HeartGuide if the U.S. Government had a satisfactory set of regulations controlling nutritional labeling and health claims. If the Government succeeds in adopting such rules, the A.H.A. says, it could withdraw its program. Given the federal bureaucracy's track record, HeartGuide may be around for a long time...
...President Alan Garcia Perez of Peru, who has called the Panama invasion a "criminal act," reiterated his threat to boycott the Andean drug summit set for Feb. 15 in Cartagena, Colombia, unless U.S. troops are withdrawn from Panama. Others scheduled to attend are Bush, Colombian President Virgilio Barco Vargas and Bolivian President Jaime Paz Zamora...
...clear signal that they want to join the worldwide crusade to save the planet. Throughout the meeting, Soviet officials made an unabashed plea for more technological help from other countries in the battle against pollution. Said Mikhail Gorbachev in a speech to the conference: "The time is ripe to set up an international mechanism for technological cooperation on environmental protection." The need for a Soviet cleanup could hardly be more urgent. According to Alexei Yablokov, the outspoken deputy chairman of the Supreme Soviet's ecology committee, as many as 50 million Soviet citizens live in areas where pollution levels...
This new awareness is a direct reflection of changed political realities in the Soviet Union. Nearly 40% of those who won election last March to the new Congress of People's Deputies included environmental concerns in their campaign platforms. The new Supreme Soviet has set out to overhaul the country's environmental laws. In the works is a resolution that would call for environmental-impact statements for all construction projects, a reappraisal of the Soviet nuclear-energy program and a review of the chemicals used in industry and agriculture. The costs will be considerable. Yablokov estimates that for the next...