University Daily Kansan / Friday, April 20, 1990
Nation/World
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Toxic fumes surprise EPA
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — In 1988, U.S. factories released 4.6 billion pounds of toxic chemicals, including scores of carcinogens, the Environmental Protection Agency reported yesterday.
The pollution, emitted from 19,762 industrial plants nationwide, was 9 percent less than a year earlier, but the EPA said the decline might be a result of better record keeping.
EPA officials cautioned that they were unable to assess the health risks to individuals from the latest raw figures. The data do not take into account levels of toxicity,
release concentrations or actual exposure.
Nevertheless, federal officials have been surprised by the high volume of toxic chemical releases in both 1987, when 5 billion pounds of pollution was reported, and 1988. The reporting requirement covers 332 toxic chemicals.
"The figures are absolutely shocking," said Rep. Gerry Siskorsi, D-Minn., who along with several other members of Congress obtained a special computer run on the figures and provided additional details about the releases.
Plan calls for defense cuts
Among the chemicals routinely emitted from industrial sources were 77 carcinogens.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled House Budget Committee worked yesterday toward approval of a plan to slash President Bush's defense spending proposal and shift billions of dollars to domestic programs.
House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., said there was
good common sense behind the Democratic version of the fiscal 1991 budget. He said it was a sharp departure from the status quo.
Republicans described the $1.24 trillion plan as having what they termed the same old liberal Democratic priorities and irresponsibility, but called the committee
action an early step in the budget process.
The Democratic-proposed budget, scheduled for full House debate next week, envisions $295 billion in military spending, about $1 billion less than the current year and $8 billion less than requested by Bush.
DeKlerk vows apartheid changes; Police kill four teenage protesters
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — President W. F. de Klerk yesterday pledged significant changes in apartheid laws as part of his plan for a new constitution that would include Blacks for the first time.
De Klerk's speech at Parliament was seen as one of his strongest statements yet on dismantling the nation's policies of racial segregation.
Also yesterday, police said officers using shotguns and rubber bullets killed four youths and wounded one while dispersing stone-throwing demonstrators who marched in the Rammultoi township near the central city of Vilijenskroon.
The independent 702 radio station reported that 19 people were injured. Residents said about 200 marchers were protesting grievances against the township council.
Nation/World briefs
TAX GAP GROWING: The gap between the federal taxes U.S. citizens owe and what they pay will swell to $127 billion a year by 1992.
The Internal Revenue Service will be able to collect only about one-fourth of the money with existing enforcement efforts, an IRS official said yesterday.
There are no quick fixes for reducing the tax gap, IRS Commissioner Fred J. Goldberg Jr. told the House and Means oversight subcommittee.
The gap is the difference between
the income taxes that individuals and businesses owe on legal earnings and what they pay. It includes cheating by understating income, overstating deductions and failing to file returns.
UNIONS NEGOTIATE HOUSING: A small group of mostly immigrant workers who speak 87 languages among them are responsible for federal legislation allowing labor unions to negotiate for affordable-housing assistance in Boston.
The success by Local 26 stemmed from the strength of its 5,000 members, hotel and food service workers who struggled to eke out a living in one of the country's most expensive cities, local president DomenecBozotto said yesterday.
"It itshows that when people get together over social responsibility, you can build community," said Bozzotto. "This is what America is all about. We've shown all the cynics that America's not dead. We're still in love with America. Our parents told us anything could be done here, and we're not jaded yet."
MEDFLY SAGA CONTINUES: Ladybugs, honey bees and crickets are dropping like flies in Medfly-infested regions of Southern California soaked in pesticide, leaving gardeners to battle aphids thriving with their natural enemies gone.
Frustrated gardeners are making a bee line for pesticide shelves at nurseries and garden centers, where they can find $4 tubes containing 1,000 ladybugs.
Pesticides sprayed by helicopters were intended to rid the region of the Mediterranean fruit fly.
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