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It is an engrossing exercise to locate changes of stubborn minds in the face of equally stubborn facts. Two events – one recent and one about to unfold – are instructive. Last month Chrysler chairman, Lee A. Iacocca, was presented with the All-State Safety Leadership Award, which cited the company for installing driver-side air bags…
All over America people are rallying against the construction of incinerators in their community. The more they rally — in the past three years nearly 100 incinerator proposals have been stopped — the more they realize the necessity and advantages of recycling waste instead of burning it. Incineration is a major barrier to recycling which,…
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Activist Ralph Nader announced Wednesday a campaign to repeal the new congressional pay raise, contending the “pay grab” voted by the House and Senate last week would have made Marie Antoinette proud. Nader, known for his attempts to organize grass-roots campaigns, said he was certain the vast majority of Americans were upset…
House Speaker Tom Foley (Dem. Wash.) is a most unlikely authoritarian. Soft-spoken and quasi-scholarly, Foley would not ordinarily be associated with lock-out Congressional procedures and swift-railroading of his proposals through the House. But this week, he was producing a giant sour turkey before Thanksgiving in the form of a $30,000 salary increase for his House…
The 43,000 mile interstate highway system, started under President Eisenhower, is now complete. And too much of it is falling apart, requiring large maintenance-repair costs. Potholes, large fissures and cracks and undulations are too frequent a sight on the nation’s streets and highways. The jolting wear and tear on vehicles, the long lines of cars…
“I have drunk from wells I did not dig; I have been warmed by fires I did not build.” Law professor, Robert Fellmeth, opened with this ancient anonymous saying in his recent address before the Second North American Dr. Carl Menninger Youth Care Conference. Fellmeth focused on the obligation of the human species to its…
The first move the electric company that owns the Diablo Canyon plant in southern California took on hearing that an earthquake had struck the San Francisco bay area over 500 miles to the north was to shut the plant down. The reason: Diablo Canyon is an atomic energy facility. It is remarkable how little attention…
Over 60,000 workers are on strike against the “Baby Bell” giant, NYNEX which has a legal monopoly, through its subsidiaries, on local telephone service in New York state and New England. The core of the dispute is NYNEX’s demand that its fully-paid family healthcare coverage move into a shifting mode onto the employees, starting with…
I attended a Hispanic-American convention recently and saw a variety of corporate sponsors sporting their identity. So, when the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) released its report last week titled “Marketing Disease to Hispanics,” I was not surprised. Not until I read the shocking contents which documented the nature of the epidemic.…
Tokyo, Japan — This is an export-driven country that qualifies for the title of the “poorest rich society” in the world. It is a country with a booming gross national product that is forgetting about the welfare of its own people. Consider, for example, the lethal triangle of cancer. Japan’s tobacco policy is one of…