University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 13, 1988
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Bill allows closure of bases; Pentagon to save $5 billion
The Associated Press
WINNINGTON Congress over-
whomly passed legislation yester-
day that would allow the busi-
gation to close unneeded military bases at a savings of up to $5 billion a year.
The Senate approved the bill 82.7 and the House followed shortly afterward with a 70-31 vote which sent Reagan to reconsider Reagan. He is expected to sit.
The Defense Department estimates that between $2 billion and $5 billion a year can be saved if it is permitted to pare down the list of
3. 800 U.S.military installations.
The bill endorses a Pentagon-appointed commission which has been meeting for months, trying to put together a list of bases to be closed. The panel would be expanded to 12 members by the bill.
EPA alters pesticide use in foods
The panel would make its re-
cruitment official. The Secretary F.
C. Carrück would have until Jan. 15 to either accept or reject the entire list. He could not be heard at any time.
No base closures would begin before 1990.
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday it would permit the use of cancer-causing pesticides whose residues on foods were increased and the risk of cancer was negligible.
The Associated Press
The agency so far has interpreted the so-called "Daleney clamp" baring cancer-causing food additives as a substitute for pesticide licences for such chemicals.
The reversal of policy is in line with one of the recommendations of a
National Academy of Sciences panel last year.
Jack Moore, EPA's deputy administrator, said the change cleared the way for more pesticides. The pesticides were licensed when standards were lower, and have shown some evidence of cancer causes. Those chemicals may permit the licensing of new chemicals which may be mildly carcinogenic and safer than current compounds.
EPA's new policy defines as "negligible risk" a maximum one-
in a-million chance of getting cancer in a lifetime from the residue in question.
Environmentalists denounced the action.
Jay Feldman, coordinator of the National Campaign Against the Mistreatment of Pesticides, said a one-in-a-million standard might be acceptable in principle but not for a single pesticide apart from all the others.
The "Delaney clause," named for its 1958 sponsor, then-Rep. James J.
Delaney, D.N.Y., is in the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. It hards the use of any food additive shown to cause cancer in "man or animal" food. Many cosmetics are treated with pesticides whose residue is concentrated during processing
The same act requires the EPA to set maximum permissible concentrations for pesticide residues on both raw and processed food, and no pesticide leaving a residue may be applied if a tolerance has not been established.
AIDS tests precise, study finds
The Associated Press
BOSTON — A study of AIDS virus screening among military recruits found that only one was wrongly identified as infected, discounting fears that too many people will be infected during widespread testing, a researcher said.
The latest findings, published in Thursday's New England Journal of
Medicine, were based on the first 20 months of military screening of all recruits. Just one of the 135,187 individuals was masseclished as infected
ALGERIAN LEADER ANOUNCES REFEREN-
News Roundup
Experts disagree over whether HIV screening should remain largely voluntary or whether it should be needed to include mandatory testing.
ALGIERIAN LEADER ANOUNCES REFERENC-
DUM: Algerian President Chadi Bendjedi
desterday announced a referendum on political
question that would end the ruling party's grip on power.
SOLDIERS DESTROY PALESTINIAN HOMES:
Soldiers blew up our (paleastinian) homes and sealed their others yesterday in reprisal for the murder of Arabs who collaborated with Israel.
Paleistinians hurled a grenade at a troop bus but missed.
K MART RECALLS DANGEROUS TOYS: Kmart is recalling two types of squeeze toys and some telephone shape rattles which could pose choking hazards for children, the Federal Consumer Product Safety Commission reported yesterday. Involved in the recall are an estimated 25,000 children, some 75,000 "Baby's First Playful" squeeze toys, plus about 33,000 plastic "Telephone Receiver Rattles," the commission said. Parents were urged to remove all three toys.
IRAW-CONTRA CONTINUES: Oliver North's lawsuits accused Iran contra-prosecution vests jurisdiction in the U.S. to improperly charge the former presidential aide with illegal conduct. In a virtual blizzard of motions to dismiss the 66 counts against Mr. Wallee, an independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh "formulated all legal doctrines criminalizing civil relations in areas of foreign affairs and interbranch relations."
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