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4. America’s Deceitful Rica, which North co-ordinated from the War on Drugs. White House, doubled as a drug smug- The government’s war on drugs is more gling operation. hype than reality. One of the nation’s top narcotics prosecutors quit in frustration 8. Wall Street Journal Censors last year after State Department officials Story of CBS Bias. interfered in his investigations of top peo- ple in the cocaine business. A Senate sub- The Wall Street Journal, censored a committee revealed that foreign policy major story by one of its top reporters, interests sidetracked, disrupted and under- Mary Williams Walsh, which exposed how TOP 10 CENSORED cut the “*war on drugs.’” one of the nation’s most respected TV STORIES FOR 1989 5. Guatemalan Blood ews deparments, CBS News, droadeast s s ge of the Afghanistan on U.S. Hands. The Bush administration strengthened war to the American people. 1. Global Media Lords Threaten ties with the oppressive Guatemalan mili- 9. PCBs and Toxic Waste Freedom of Information. tary last year at the same time that human In Your Gasoline. rights violations by the military rose Five major media corporations already sharply. One unpublicized violation The U.S. General Accounting Office, dominate the fight for hundreds of millions | occurred last year when a USS. citizen, the EPA, and the FBI are investigating of minds throughout the world and they Sister Diana Ortiz, working as a teacher in sophisticated *waste laundering’’ schemes concede that before the turn of the century Guatemala, was kidnapped, beaten, tor- in which hazardous toxic wastes and sol- they may control most of the world’s | tured, and sexually molested by three men, | vents, including PCBs, are mixed with important newspapers, magazines, books, one of whom was a uniformed Guatemalan | gasoline and diesel and industrial fuel and broadcast stations, movies, recordings and | police officer. The U.S. Department of | sold to consumers. video cassettes. State didn’t register a protest. . 2. Turning Africa Into 6. Radioactive Waste In and he eee asta the World’s Garbage Can. the Neighborhood Landfill. Epidemic Africa, already suffering from poverty, Radioactive waste may be joining old drought, famine, locusts, “‘contra’’ wars, tires, banana peels, and other regular The chicken industry’s drive for profits, and the AIDS epidemic, appears destined garbage at the local landfill if the Nuclear aided by relaxed inspection practices by to become the world’s toxic waste dump as Regulatory Commission, the Environmen- the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has international sludge dealers try to dump | tal Protection Agency and the nuclear led to a national epidemic of 2.5 million USS. and European waste onto at least 15 industry implement their little-known plan cases of salmonella poisoning a year, African countries. to deregulate radioactive waste to “Below 500,000 hospitalizations, and 9,000 3. The Holocaust se Oli Nath Co. Banned deaths. in Mozambique. . Oliver Nori o. Banne We from Costa Rica. The other 15 under- A US. State Department official has . called the attacks by the Mozambique In 1989, Oliver North, former National re orted stories of y q National Resistance (RENAMO) “one of Security Advisor John Poindexter, former 1989 were: the most brutal holocausts against ordinary U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica Lewis human beings since World War II.’” More | Tambs, Major General Richard Secord, than one million, mostly innocent men, | and former CIA station chief in Costa Rica ¢ How the Federal Emergency women, and children have already died. Joseph Fernandez were barred by Management Agency Failed the RENAMO is reported to be funded by President Oscar Arias from ever setting Nation; South African sources and conservative, | foot in Costa Rica again. A Costa Rican ¢ The Secret Pan Am 103 Report the right-wing groups in the United States and congressional commission concluded that Media Ignored; Europe. the contra re-supply network in Costa ¢ The U.S. is Poisoning the Rest of the 8. Wall Street Journal Censors Story of CBS Bias. 5. Guatemalan Blood on U.S. Hands. 9. PCBs and Toxic Waste In Your Gasoline. 1. Global Media Lords Threaten Freedom of Information. 10. The Chicken Industry and the National Salmonella Epidemic. 2. Turning Africa Into the World’s Garbage Can. 6. Radioactive Waste In the Neighborhood Landfill. 3. The Holocaust in Mozambique. 1989 were: ¢ How the Federal Emergency Management Agency Failed the Nation; * The Secret Pan Am 103 Report the Media Ignored; * The U.S. is Poisoning the Rest of the NEXUS - 24 - ARE THE STORIES YOU NEED TO KNOW... reported stories of YEAR BOOK - JULY/AUGUST 1991