European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes april toxic waste monitoring called unreliable Washington up toxic mate rials have seeped into the ground water at 45 percent of the hazardous waste disposal Sites surveyed in a congressional a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee said the Survey of facilities also found that government monitoring of the Sites is incomplete and Survey found some indication of ground water contamination at or 45 of the facilities the report found an extremely High number of facilities have not installed ground water monitoring Wells legally required by november some of the data Are especially when viewed from the perspective that the regulations called for compliance with the interim status ground water monitoring requirements 3vi years wrote commit tee chairman John in a letter to panel Gene director of the Pas of fice of waste programs said a study by his office last summer showed Many facilities have not complied with the and others have installed in adequate monitoring we acknowledge that there is a High level of Lucero add ing that a continuing review May uncover further the extent of the problem varies from one site to he adding that the government will order immediate action if leakage has spread far enough to endanger a photo Piotr Sternik in cockpit of Boeing 747 taking him polish flies Home after heart surgery in san Francisco a a 6year old polish boy who came to the United states for heart surgery left saturday for Gdansk with a lifetime of memories after four months in Piotr Sternik and his Halina boarded a Boeing 747 at san fran Cisco International Airport Happy to return Home but reluctant to leave the friends and lifestyle they enjoyed while in their Peter before they Sternik thanked the Anonymous heart donor who made Piotros operation possible and the americans who donated Money to pay the boys medical Piotr entered Stanford medical Center on 28 with a congenital heart defect that caused much of his blood to bypass his doctors said he would die without corrective which was not available in on Stanford surgeons grafted a donated heart valve onto Piotros defective heart and patched a Hole Between the More than donors gave a total of toward the boys medical costs after Stanford asked for payment in and Vance for the the remaining might be used to pay for the Chil cps future medical emerged Wasowski he said surgeons have warned that Piotr might require More his heart is repaired but not reconstructed into a Normal he the next months and next couple of years will Tell us exactly what will we just have to wait and see what Piotr took a list of instructions for polish a Supply of medication and a suit Case full of new toys with him to where his Michal has been who was fired from his Job in the Gdansk shipyards in 1981 after supporting the Solidarity Union drives a the health or the subcommittee report the environmental Protection Agency hazardous waste data management system listing land disposal facilities subject to ground water monitoring requirements was found to be incomplete and in efforts to enforce the requirements have been dilatory and seriously the report the Survey found 15 percent of the facilities have no monitoring Wells and an other 25 percent have systems that Are in forty one or 508 facile have nominally adequate but Only 21 of those have received final permits certifying they have acceptable ground water monitoring Epa regional offices did not know the adequacy of Well systems for 17 other facile and the remaining 2 percent have received or applied for waivers from the re of the 39 facilities that have received toxic materials from superfund Sites the nations worst hazardous waste Sites singled out for cleanup under a Federal program 21 either have inadequate monitoring sys tems or their status is unknown or under the Survey of the 317 Sites with inadequate Well 48 percent have been subjects of formal enforcement 26 percent have been Given informal warnings and 26 per cent have had no action taken against the report White House press corps urges end of harassment Washington up the organization representing White House reporters sunday recommended reforms to end a pattern of Petty harassment of the press by secret service agents and to give journalists better Access to the in a 19page report reviewing reporters the White House correspondents association also recommended that news agencies help by not requesting White House credentials for managers who do not regularly cover the the report recounted dozens of instances of the use of secret service agents to Block reporters from covering the president and to subject them to extensive personal searches for weapons searches not applied to others entering the White House compound on a daily the report quoted the secret service As saying the issuance of permanent White House press passes has devalued the the secret service no longer views a pass Holder As any less dangerous to the president than a the report a key recommendation is to establish a two tier system of White House credentials one for the reporters who cover the president Day to Day and one for col editors and others who would never be in the Pool covering the presi Dent at close it also suggested that White House Reg ulars be Given More thorough background checks to allow them Freedom from harassment when they Are in close proximity to the the prepared under the supervision of association president Sara Fritz of the los Art Geles recounted War Sto Ries of correspondents with grievances against secret service the anecdotes contained in this Section reflect a pattern of Petty unexplained intrusions and apparent overreaction by secret service the report in none of these cases was anyone being the chief effect in each Case was to interfere with a reporters ability to do his or her Job and to impose additional stress on members of the press White House spokesman Larry Speakes would not comment on the Security restrictions affecting the press were stepped up after the March 1981 shooting of president and most re porters complain not Only of but also of the use of secret service agents to Block them from their traditional Vantage Point close to the the results of this Survey leave Little doubt that the rapidly escalating Security restrictions imposed on the White House press corps Are often inconsistent and frequently used As a form of press manage the report a result of the White House and secret service issuing so Many passes and not honouring them As the report these credentials often provide1 reporters with less Access to the president than the general the report quoted secret service spokes Man Robert Snow As saying he tells new agents that dealing with the Media is an adversarial the things that make a Good agent also make a Good reporter being aggressive and Best Sellers compiled by the new York times fiction by Richard Bachman tomorrow comes by Sidney 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