GOOD READING

An outstanding issue of the bimonthly Aim Report (Aug. A):

"EPA gulls media on radon," AIM, 1275 K St. NW/#1150, Wash, DC 20005. Subscription $32.95/year. AIM's director Reed Irvine has also written a most enlightening article "Dioxin and the Press," Wall St.J., 8/9/91, available in Fort Freedom. More than 2,000 resi-dents of Times Beach, Mo., were evacuated and the town destroyed because of a mistaken scare about dioxin, which was also present in Agent Orange.

"The Times Beach Fiasco," Insight, 8/12/91, very good ar-ticle on same subject. See also Dioxin in the Environment, $3.85, ACSH, 1995 Broadway, 16^th fl., New York NY 10023, reprinted 1991, originally publ. in 1984 and commented on many times here. The scandal is not new for those who wanted to listen.

W. Brookes, "The strange case of the glancing geese," For-bes, 9/2/91, on EPA's Wetlands scam.

J.J. McKetta, US Energy Today and in the 90s, $1, NCEB, Box 7732, Louisville, KY 40207.

1989 NAPAP Annual Report (acid rain), also NAPAP Newsletter now available free from NAPAP, 722 Jackson Pl. NW, Wash. DC 20503.

On Mountains and Molehills (Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal), free from USCEA, 1776 I St. NW/#400, Washington, DC 20006.

The FTC's proposed ruling on "Green marketing" and Audubon's obstruction of ANWR oil, CEI Update, July 91. CEI, 233 Penna. Ave SE/#200, Wash., DC 20003. Contrib. welcome.

How to write letters to the media, AIM (address in first item), AIM member $3.95, non-members $6.95.

M. Kihn, "SDS Jr.," Forbes, 6/10/91, on Student Environ-mental Action Coalition.

E.F. Mallove, Fire from Ice ($22.95 hdbd., 334 pp., Wiley, 1991), very readable account of the Cold Fusion story.

So Gorby wants the Swedish welfare state. Read all about it in D. Moller, "The nation that tried to buy happiness," Reader's Digest, Sept. 91.

"I am ready to die here right on this spot. I will not move. I am 55 years old and for years nothing but obedience and inertia was pounded into my brain. . . These monsters! They have always thought they could do anything to us. Now they are threatening a government that I helped elect. I will ig-nore the curfew. I will let a tank roll over me if I have to. I will die right here if I have to."