Turn on the Light and Say Goodnight

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Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977

“A nuclear power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food each year.” — Dixy Lee Ray, former head of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), now governor of Washington “You can’t have a riskless

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The Plague that Wasn’t

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Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977

We might venture to speculate that it was not with deep regret that the Ford Administration finally called an official halt to its embarrassingly disastrous swine flu mass immunization program recently. Most assuredly an unmitigated scam that simply didn’t cut

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Nuclear Plants: Potential Disasters

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Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976

This article is the third in an originally-planned two-part series on the perils of radioactive waste materials and highly toxic chemicals. Part One of the series (Capitalism’s Industrial Plagues, # 276, September 1976) dealt with the devastating results of nuclear

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The Year of the Swine

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Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976

When 1976 is all over and done with not long from now and we look back on it as history, it may well be remembered as the “Year of the Swine.” No, not the Jimmy Carter variety, but the four-legged,

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Is Michigan Slated For Nuclear Landfill?

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Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976

This article is the second of a two-part series on the effects that the indiscriminate care and usage of radioactive waste materials and dangerous chemicals are having, and will continue to have in the future, on man and his environment.

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Capitalism’s Industrial Plagues

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Fifth Estate # 276, September 1976

This article is the first in a two-part series on the effects that the indiscriminate handling and usage of radioactive waste materials and dangerous chemicals are having, and will have in the future, on human beings and their environment. Part

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New Wave of Legal Repression Looms

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Fifth Estate # 275, August, 1976

Unbeknownst to the vast majority of people in this country, we’ve once again over the last few months been inundated with a rash of extremely serious attempts on the part of the state apparatus via bourgeois legalism to further severely

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Gary Tyler Family Victimized

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Fifth Estate # 274, July 1976

Although there have been no recent developments in the nation-wide campaign to free Gary Tyler, the 17-year-old Black Louisiana man framed and sentenced to death for the shooting of a 13-year-old white racist youth, there have been new disclosures concerning

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LNG

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Fifth Estate # 281, March, 1977

1. The LNG Terror “The area between 55th and 62nd streets, St. Clair Avenue and the lake became an inferno. Gas flowed down the streets and into the sewers. The slightest spark exploded it. Manhole covers flew high into the

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Free Gary Tyler!

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Fifth Estate # 273, June 1976

In a murder case which has “frame up” written all over it, a 17-year-old black Louisiana man named Gary Tyler sits on Death Row awaiting execution by electric chair for a crime he did not commit–the fatal shooting of a

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