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  2. <title>
  3. June 10, 1991: American Notes:Environment
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  5. <history>
  6. TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991               
  7. June 10, 1991  Evil                                  
  8. </history>
  9. <article>
  10. <source>Time Magazine</source>
  11. <hdr>
  12. NATION, Page 25
  13. American Notes
  14. ENVIRONMENT
  15. Mothers of Prevention
  16. </hdr><body>
  17. <p>     For years the barrios of largely Latino East Los Angeles have
  18. been a dumping ground for unwanted projects, from noisy freeway
  19. interchanges to no fewer than six jails. But last week, after
  20. six years of agitation marked by four lawsuits, 16 hearings and
  21. six mile-long protest marches, the 400-strong Mothers of East
  22. L.A. passed around cookies to celebrate a major victory:
  23. cancellation of a proposed commercial incinerator they claimed
  24. could spew cancer-causing particles over the community by
  25. burning 22,500 tons of used motor oil and industrial sludge
  26. annually. Citing "political pressure" and the prospect of
  27. "interminable litigation," attorneys for Security Environmental
  28. Systems, which was to build the facility, ruefully announced
  29. "abandonment" of the project.
  30. </p>
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  32. </body></article>
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