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1973Year ed says it has been evident that Nixon Adm viewed job of chief educ official Dr S P Marland Jr as primarily 1 of image-bldg
says severe limitations were placed on Marland; lauds his accomplishments but decries his failure to speak out against Pres's negative policies Dr. Marland Steps Down
2002Year Uniformed Fire Officers Assn president Peter L Gorman letter on July 7 article and July 12 editorial notes new radios, which failed field tests, were not being used on September 11
says severe reductions in ranks of staff chiefs and deputy chiefs, ordered by former Comr Thomas Von Essen, decimated New York City Fire Department's command structure The Breakdown At the Fire Dept.
2000Year Letter from Walter Cronkite says controversy over actions of Gen Barry R McCaffrey's 24th Infantry Division after cease-fire in Persian Gulf war points up serious fallacy of Pentagon's censorship policy in that conflict
says severe restrictions placed on reporters seeking to accompany troops into action shielded possible military mistakes but also limited reports of individual heroism Military Censorship In the Gulf War
1973Year Study by Dr C Telson, physician at Metropolitan Hosp, NYC, and prof of pediatrics at NY Med Coll, repts on May 19 that study indicates that infants born to mothers who are under methadone treatment have more severe reaction to drug that heroin‐addicted babies have to heroin
says severity of methadone withdrawal symptoms in infants is not related to dosage as in case of heroin withdrawal; study was conducted with 46 babies born to methadone‐addicted mothers and 45 infants whose mothers are heroin addicts; other findings of study discussed Study Finds Addiction Severe In Infants of Methadone Users
1975Year Amer Littoral Soc seeks ban to halt dumping of sewer sludge 9 miles of Sandy Hook, NJ, because of increasing pollution of NJ's coastal waters and beaches
says sewage and oil discharges into local offshore waters are washing onto NJ's beaches and such discharges should be stopped; also says oil dumping continues despite efforts of EPA and others to enforce current oil discharge laws; EPA to decide whether to close offshore dumping site or open alternative site 25 miles east of Long Beach Island; plans to end all sludge-dumping in ocean by '85; pilot project in Belle Mead is using high-heat incineration to dispose of large amts of sewage generated in NY-NJ met area and is being considered as alternative to ocean dumping (M) Ban Sought on Dumping Off Sandy Hook
2002Year State lawsuit accuses Yonkers of illegally discharging thousands of gallons of untreated sewage into Bronx River since at least 1999
says sewage flowed from at least four pipes that are part of city's storm drain system; says discharges had fecal coliform at concentrations 250 times higher than allowed under state law (M) State Lawsuit Says Yonkers Is Polluting Bronx River