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(617)547-0370 2 Science for the People / Science for the People inside JULY/AUGUST 1979 VOL. 11 No.4 MAGAZINE COMMITTEES Production Jon Beckwith 2 Chapters and Contacts Nancy Brown Computer Group 4 About This Issue Fran Conrad Dennis Del Donno 5 Letters Eric Entemann Ross Feldberg 6 Love Canal: Chemical Wastes Back Up Alan Frolich Connie Phillips by Buffalo Chapter, New American Movement Gertrude Freedman Mel Freedman 10 Three Mile Island and Nuclear Power Jeanne Gallo Sue Genser by Carol Cina and Ted Goldfarb Chris Hydemann Joel Kandel 18 Anti-Nuke Resource List Ronnie Lipshutz Mary Nelson 19 Current Opinion: Defend Affirmative Bob Park Martha Robb Action by Affirmative Action Workshop Rich Rosen Lorraine Roth 20 The First Science for the People National George Salzman Conference by Urbana-Champaign SftP Scott Schneider Rachel Skvirsky Miriam Struck 23 SftP West Coast Regional Conference Sue Tafler Scott Thacher 27 Scientific Research and Education in Carlos Valdes Vietnam: A Speech and Interview with Ray Valdes Nguyen Van Hieu by East Bay SftP Editorial Ross Feldberg 3 3 Food and Agriculture in China, Part II Connie Phillips Midwest Ed. Collective by Stet/en Risch and Michael Hansen Martha Robb Rich Rosen 39 Resources b;· Tallahassee SftP Miriam Struck Tallahassee Chapter Peter Ward Western Ed. Collective Distribution Connie Phillips Science for the People magazine is published bimonthly by the national organization Scott Schneider Science for the People (see facing page for chapters and contacts). Our address is 897 Glenn Wargo Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139. Tel: (617) 547-0370. We welcome contributions of all Coordinating Staff kinds: articles, book r~views, artwork, cartoons, etc. Please see our editorial guidelines Jeanne Gallo on the inside back cover. SftP is intended for all people interested in a progressive and Scott Schneider radical view of science and technology. Our subscription rates are $7 per year (regular Ray Valdes subscribers), $10 per year (foreign subscribersl and $16 a year or whatever you can afford (member subscribers). Member subscribers receive the magazine plus our internal newsletter and other internal communication. For legal purposes. Science for the People is incorporated. SltP is available in microfilm from Xerox University Microfilms, 300 North Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor Ml48106. Unless otherwise stated. all material in this magazme ts copyright 1979 by Sctence for the People. July/August 1979 3 about this issue In this issue we present an edited version of a pam­ Any discussion of class relations in Vietnam raises phlet written by two SftP members in response to the questions about its internal development, its foreign Three Mile Island disaster in late March. We hope that policy, and its relationships with other socialist couh­ this article will serve.as an organizing tool to help build tries. Similar questions are raised with regard to a dis­ a larger anti-nuclear movement. The article surveys the cussion of the Chinese situation. In printing this article catastrophic potential, long-term health hazards and about Vietnam and the continuation of the article on economic myths surrounding the nuclear power indus­ the agricultural system in China, we are not taking a try.