GOOD READING

Acidic Deposition: State of Science and Technology; further part of the NAPAP study, from NAPAP, 722 Jackson Pl. N.W., Washington, DC 20503.

U.S. Oil Import Vulnerability: The Technical Replacement Capacity, OTA Report, Oct.1991, $8 from Govt. Prtg. Off., Washington, DC 20402; stock no. 052-003-01261-8. Ignores nuclear power, but otherwise pretty good.

Improving Automobile Fuel Economy, OTA report, Oct. 1991, as above, stock no. 052-003-01262-6. Underestimates safety issues and contains much legislative palaver, but also much useful information.

~ "Nuclear plant components: wearing out? No: wearing well," free from USCEA, 11761 I St. NW/#400, Washington, DC 20006.

"Flip-Flopping on Car Safety," a collection of wonderfully embarrassing quotes by Joan Claybrook, Ralph Nader & Co. on safety of small cars when the shoe was on the other foot; CEI, 233 Pennsylvania Ave. SE/#200, Washington, DC 20003. Contribu-tions welcome.

P. Gumbel on the 1979 Soviet "anthrax" coverup in

Sverdlovsk Wall St.J, 10/21,10/22,10/23. A most excellent series of reports, except that Gumbel takes Soviet apologist Meselson for a serious scientist in spite of Gumbel's colleague Kucewics's articles utterly discrediting him [see also AtE Oct, Dec 85; Jun 86, Jul 88] in the Yellow Rain affair.

L. Spencer & others, "The not so peaceful world of Green-peace,"Forbes, 11/11/91.