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...California, Juana Gutierrez and her 400-member Mothers of East Los Angeles are fighting a proposed toxic-waste incinerator slated for nearby Vernon, which every year would spew some 19,000 tons of potentially health- threatening ash on their community. Why, she asks, should East Los Angeles, poverty-pocked and largely Hispanic, be subjected to this environmental atrocity? "Why not Beverly Hills...
...Iron Works in Bath, Me., who got "sunburns" one rainy day when someone on a Navy frigate flicked on the ship's radar. Or the trash fires that start spontaneously from time to time near the radio and TV broadcast antennas in downtown Honolulu. Or the pristine suburb of Vernon, N.J., that has both one of the world's highest concentrations of satellite transmitting stations and a persistent -- and unexplained -- cluster of Down's syndrome cases...
Critics charge that the agency and one of its senior officials, Dr. Vernon Houk, helped scuttle a $63 million study that might have determined once and for all whether U.S. troops exposed to Agent Orange suffered serious damage to their health. Houk maintains he recommended that the study be canceled on strictly scientific grounds. Yet there is evidence that the CDC suppressed reports from the National Academy of Sciences that directly challenged its position, and spurned extensive help from the Pentagon, leading the White House to kill the study...
Though most states let parents or guardians make such decisions according to their best judgment, New York, Maine and Missouri demand "clear and convincing evidence" -- such as a living will. Mount Vernon, Mo., happens to be where Cruzan lies helpless. The main question now, said Rehnquist, was whether Missouri had a right to impose such requirements. The majority decided that because of the state's powerful interest in the preservation of life and the "obvious and overwhelming finality" of such life-and-death decisions, the state did have that right...
Considering the enormity of Vernon's failure -- 96% of its loans were overdue when the Government took over -- the indictment strikes some critics as tardy and tame. The Justice Department contends that it has been moving as quickly as possible, although last year it left $26 million unspent out of a fraud-fighting budget of $75 million. "These complicated white-collar-crime cases take time to develop," says Attorney General Dick Thornburgh. In north Texas alone, the Government is investigating more than 500 individuals affiliated with 38 different...