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AN EDUCATION TO DIE FOR...

This information is of importance to parents, students, and 
educators everywhere, but is likely to be of concern to 
environmentally-conscious individuals and to Southern Baptists 
and other Christians in particular.

As witnessed by the  unanimous passing of the new Food Safety 
legislation on August 3, 1996 which regulates even miniscule 
(parts per billion) chemical residues on food crops, the harmful and
neurotoxic effects of pesticides (and the consequent degenerative 
threat to intellectual and academic capacities) have become an 
earnest, bi-partisian concern for ourselves and for future generations.

However, a Southern Baptist university in the Ozarks (which has 
an extension service in Denver, Colorado) and its current
President (former Missouri Secretary-of-State and current Republican
candidate for Congressman of the Missouri Seventh District) 
Roy Blunt, is fighting for its "right" to fumigate pesticides during 
class hours while students and faculty are present.

Backed by the powerful influence and corporate structure of the 
Southern Baptist Convention, the past and present members of 
the Southwest Baptist University Board of Trustees and the Missouri 
Baptist Convention (which owns SBU) have sought to silence and 
discredit,  by whatever means necessary, anyone who questions 
this practice and the resulting injuries.  

The details are described in this April 16, 1996 letter to the North
Central  Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA), the April 16, 
996 letter to the Missouri Agriculture Department, and the 
subsequent update information to follow :

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Tuesday, April  16, 1996                              

Marie Ann O�Hara
PO Box 534
Bolivar, MO  65613

Attention:  Evaluation Core
Patricia Thrash, Executive Director

Glen Niemeyer, Chair Provost,
Grand Valley State University, Michigan

North Central  Association 
30 North Lasalle
Chicago, Illinois  60602
 Fax:  (312)-263-7462

Dear Evaluation Core for Southwest Baptist University:

The following situation is pertinent to the pending accreditation
evaluation of Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri 
(April 29 through May 1, 1996) and certainly reflects on the integrity 
of this institution, its Board of Trustees, its administration,  its
faculty,
and its staff.  

It was my belief that this situation would be resolved from within 
Southwest Baptist University, but it is increasingly apparent that 
outside intervention and observation will be necessary in order to 
facilitate change.

I have taken the precaution of posting this letter to several archived
Internet mailing lists and newsgroups in the hope that my concerns
will be heard.

I feel that the penalty for attending a Christian university should not 
be injury, disability, or death. 

                                        Sincerely,
                                        Marie Ann O Hara

Enclosures:
April 16, 1996 letter to the
Department of Agriculture

==begin Agriculture Dept enclosure letter===

Tuesday, April 16, 1996

Marie Ann O Hara
PO Box 534
Bolivar, MO 65613

Attention: Jim Lea, Pesticide Investigator
Department of Agriculture
Division of Plant Industries
Pesticide Misuse Division
PO Box 630
Jefferson City, MO  65102-0630
Fax:  (314)-751-0005

Dear Sir:

I would like to request an investigation into the misapplication 
of pesticides in the buildings and on the grounds of Southwest 
Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri by the Southwest Baptist 
University staff and their pest controller, Campbell Pest Control 
of Springfield, Missouri and the on-going attempts by individuals 
associated with these entities to conceal the identity, antidote, 
application warnings, toxicity and possible delayed, cumulative,
and long-term effects of skin absorption and inhalation exposures 
to these compounds.

Contrary to the insistence of SBU officials that the pesticides 
were "non-toxic" and harmless, it is now known that the pesticides 
were, in fact, organophosphate "peoplecides" derived from Sarin 
nerve gas, whose odorless, colorless degration product, hydrogen 
cyanide, was used to execute concentration camp victims and 
(until it was recently declared unconstitutionally cruel) was 
utilized to execute death row prisoners.

More than thirty pesticides, including endrocrine-disrupting 
organochlorines (related to DDT), pyrethroids, and carbamates, 
were admittedly used in fumigation while students were in the 
buildings.  Carcinogenic and neurotoxic solvents, such as 
aromatic petroleum distillates and xylene, were routinely laced 
with these pesticides as propellant agents. 

Though my doctors confirmed a violent, near-fatal "reaction" 
to such an application while I was attending class in the Casebolt 
Science Center in September of 1988 (which involved chemical 
respiratory burns and bleeding pneumonia), I was again re-exposed 
my first day back to class four months later...at 12:10 PM in 
the Old Administration Building.

As later revelations established, SBU administrators had ignored 
various student and faculty complaints about the pesticides
since 1962 and had ordered monthly, daytime applications of
these toxic pesticides campus-wide. One notable exception was 
the Old Administration Building, which was sprayed at 12:10 PM--
after the administrators had gone to lunch, though students, like 
myself, were still walking down the hallways and attending classes.  

After I made both verbal and written complaints regarding the  
first acute poisoning, SBU's long-time insurer, ITT Hartford, 
paid for some of my acute medical care.  Following the second 
exposure, the ITT Hartford agent, Tom Furr, apologized, made 
arrangements to cover some of the medical costs for the second 
injury, and explained that he had warned SBU not to fumigate 
during business hours.

I later learned, however, that ITT Hartford had not just issued 
a warning, but had actually dropped SBU's coverage following my 
first injury, and a second insurer, Preferred Risk, was evidently 
not even informed of my subsequent exposure in January 1989.

Nonetheless, SBU officials continued to allow an unlicensed, poorly-
trained applicator to fumigate for several more semesters, in spite 
of label warnings that introducing the product into the air and 
spraying while occupants were present constituted a felony and 
that inhalation of the pesticide could be harmful or fatal. 

Another SBU student, Judy Taylor, who was not even enrolled
when I was attending SBU, wrote a Letter-to-the-Editor (Bolivar 
Herald Free Press, Sept. 26, 1990) to report that, long after I 
was disabled by the pesticide poisoning and could no longer 
continue my education, she and her classmates were subjected 
to a similar injurious pesticide exposure...in the SBU Casebolt 
Science Center. 

Although I attempted to initiate a complaint with the Agriculture 
Department on February 2, 1990, due to the life-threatening nature 
of the respiratory, neurological, immunological and other injuries 
resulting from repeated acute and chronic exposures and the threats 
to my health and life, I was unable to proceed at that time.

After exhaustive endeavors to deal with this matter by other 
means, I was compelled to file suit against the Southwest Baptist 
University and its pest controller, Campbell Pest Control of 
Springfield, Missouri on October 9, 1991 in Greene County Court 
(Case number, CV191CC2880).

Please consider this letter, the filing papers, and the extensive 
sworn Interrogatories which were filed in this litigation on December 
20, 1993 as a means of initiating this complaint.  I have supplied 
the times, dates, places, and names of other individuals who were 
exposed and who witnessed exposures in this court documentation. 

The sworn depositions of several Southwest Baptist University 
administrators and Campbell Pest Control owner, Terry Campbell, 
and his applicator contradict statements previously given to the
Agriculture Department, SBU students and their parents, SBU
alumni, the Missouri Baptist Convention and Southern Baptist 
Convention leadership, and the Bolivar community.

Further, some SBU staff and their associates (particularly those 
involved with the governing bodies, community and church programs, 
and the assistance agencies of Polk County and the City of Bolivar) 
have willfully encouraged hostility, intimidation, and injury by
deliberately propagating false information and/or tampering with
academic, medical, insurance, and other records.

I would ask that you not contact me directly due to the severity of 
my medical condition and speech impairments.  However, please 
feel free to contact my attorney, Mr. [Leroy Vadney], for additional 
information or assistance.  He may be reached at: The Law Offices 
of Melvin M. Belli, 30 Hotaling Place, San Francisco, CA  94111;  
[Telephone and fax deleted.]

You may send written communication to my home address:  PO 
Box 534, Bolivar, MO 65613.  Please send any certified mail 
without restriction, because signing for such letters, as required 
by the post office, is difficult and painful for me.  I ask that you 
forward copies of all written correspondence to my attorney at 
the address given above. 
                                      

                                     Sincerely,
                                     Marie Ann O Hara 
        
===end Ag letter===

List of Recipient Members of the 
Board of North Central Association to follow:
This communication is also to be given to the following:

The Membership of the Board of the
North Central Association 
30 North Lasalle
Chicago, Illinois  60602
Fax:  (312)-263-7462

Patricia Thrash, Executive Director

Glen Niemeyer, Chair Provost,
Grand Valley State University, Michigan
 
Dorothy MacConkey, NCA Vice Chairman, 
President of Davis University, Elkins, West Virginia

Linda Debolt , Business Manager,
Internal Medicine, Riverton, Wyoming

John Cordova, President,
South Mountain Community College, Arizona

Richard Fairbanks, Manager,
Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico

Maureen Faye, President,
University of Detroit Mercy, Michigan

Stella Clestino Fernandez, Vice President and Provost,
New Campus, Pima County University, Arizona

Sondra Gautt, Assistant Vice Chancellor,
University of Kansas, Kansas

Cynthia Heelan, President,
Colorado Mountain College, Colorado

Margret Lee, President,
Oakton Community College, Illinois

Ann Matasar, Amoco Distinguished Professor of International Business,
Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois

Kay Schallenkamp, Provost and Vice Chancellor,
University of Wisconsin, White Water, Wisconsin

Clifford Shields, Retired Financial Officer,
Standard Oil Company of Ohio

Richard K. Smith, Vice President for Financial Affairs,
Earlham College, Indiana

David Wee, Professor of English,
St. Olaf College, Minnesota
   
  ===end NCA letter=== 

********UPDATE******

Although this student, Marie O'Hara, received a letter from the NCA
confirming receipt of this complaint letter (which was forwarded
to Mr. Roy Blunt) on April 24, 1996, as far as can determined at 
this time, no other action has been taken.

Instead, according to a local source, SBU officials continue
to insist that these pesticides be used in a similar manner
because they feel that changing their methods at this point
may "increase their liability."  Some officials have continued, at 
various times, to press the notion that these agents are "non-toxic."

Officials cite "budget constraints," that is, the desire to save the 
cost of paying applicators overtime fees, for the need to fumigate 
during business hours.

It is clear that the SBU administration, specifically: current SBU 
President Roy Blunt (SBU Trustee at the time of these incidents and 
current Republican candidate for Congressman of the Missouri 7th 
District); ousted former SBU President, Dr. James Sells and his son,
former SBU Vice-President and Student Affairs Director, Ben Sells 
(the Campaign Director for Mr. Blunt's failed 1992 bid for the 
Missouri governorship), and former interim SBU President and 
Trustee, Mr. Wayne Gott (SBU Trustee, prominent Missouri 
Republican party leader and owner of the Town & County and 
Country Mart chains of grocery stores) can not be trusted to 
furnish warnings and information concerning the potential risks 
of exposures to these toxic agents to the faculty, students, and 
alumni.

Therefore, the following summation of information relevant to the 
pesticides used on the SBU campus has been provided below.

[Brackets enclose condensed medical definitions or explanations.]

***************

HEALTH EFFECTS OF INSECTICIDES

   HUMAN EXPOSURE occurs when a person breaths in 
pesticides, absorbs them through their skin, or eats them.  Dilute 
pesticides in common use use can be life-threatening. Pesticides 
residues may remain present on plants, in soil, on indoor surfaces, 
and in the air for days or weeks (and in some cases, EVEN 
MONTHS OR YEARS after an application).

ACTIVE INGREDIENTS
   The vast majority of common insecticides used by homeowners,
commercial applicators (exterminators, lawn pesticide applicators, 
etc.), and farmers fall into one of the THREE CLASSES below.

   These insect killers attack the nervous system of people and other
mammals, as well as in insects:  "An undesirable property...is the 
NARROW ZONE of their TOXIC ACTION, i.e. the SMALL difference 
between the LETHAL DOSE and concentrations and the quantities 
giving rise to the INITIAL SIGNS of POISONING."

***ORGANOPHOSPHATES***
Chlorpyrifos (Durasban); Diazinon (Spectracide); 
Propetamaphos (Safrotin); Acephate (Orthene); Dichlorvos 
(DDVP); Malathion and others. 

   Routes of entry into the body: "Poisoning was due not 
only to ingestion or INHALATION of VAPOURS or DROPLETS, 
but also to ABSORPTION through the INTACT SKIN."    

     
ACUTE  ORGANOPHOSPHATE  PESTICIDE
                    EXPOSURE EFFECTS: 

FIRST STAGE OF POISONING
   The first stage is characterized by ANXIETY, NAUSEA, 
SALIVATION, VOMITING, ABDOMINAL PAINS, DIARRHEA, 
BLURRED VISION, and EXCESSIVE LACRIMINAL SECRETION 
[tears]. 
     
MODERATE POISONING
   Symptoms of moderate poisoning are HEADACHE, 
impairment of sensitivity (PARESTHESIA) [a sensation of pricking, 
tingling, or creeping on the skin that has no objective 
cause], SLEEPLESSNESS or, on the contrary, SLEEPINESS, 
CONFUSION, ATAXY [inability to coordinated voluntary 
muscular movements which is symptomatic of nervous 
disorders or injury], TREMORS of the hands and head,
LOSS of ORIENTATION, and SPEECH DISTURBANCES.

SEVERE POISONING
   In cases of severe poisoning the symptoms are those
of the second and third stages:  ATTACKS OF CLONIC 
[a forced series of alternating contractions and partial 
relaxations of a muscle] and TONIC [prolonged muscular 
contraction] CONVULSIONS which alternate with a 
COMATOSE STATE.  

   The blood pressure is initially increased, but drops 
shortly before death.  PULMONARY OEDEMA [an abnormal 
excess accumulation of serous fluid] develops, collapse 
may occur, urine and feces are involuntarily eliminated.

   DEATH ENSUES WHEN RESPIRATION IS PARALYZED. 
If large quantities of poison are absorbed, death may supervene 
one or two hours later, but in general, several hours elapse between 
the onset of poisoning and death....
     
CHRONIC AND LONG-TERM EFFECTS  
   DELAYED NEUROLOGICAL EFFECTS including PAIN, 
NUMBNESS and WEAKNESS in the extremities which may 
persist for months or years.  Also, central nervous system damage 
(HEADACHE, WEAKNESS, FEELING of HEAVINESS in the HEAD, 
DECLINE of MEMORY, quick onset of FATIGUE, DISTURBED 
SLEEP, LOSS of APPETITE, and LOSS of ORIENTATION.
PSYCHIC DISORDERS, nystagmus [a rapid involuntary oscillation 
of eyeball], TREMBLING of the HANDS and other NERVOUS 
SYSTEM DISORDERS can be observed in certain cases.  

   Sometimes NEURITIS [an inflammatory or DEGENERATIVE 
LESION OF A NERVE, esp. marked by pain, sensory 
disturbances and impaired or lost reflexes], PARESIS 
[slight or partial paralysis] and PARALYSIS develop).  

    Can cause CHEMICAL SENSITIVITIES and cross-sensitivities 
to pollens, molds, prescription drugs. Many chronic effects remain 
unknown as 70 percent of pesticides have undergone fraudulent 
safety testing (EPA, Federal Register, and Sierra Club).

   In lab animals, exposures have caused cancer, birth defects,
and organ damage.
       
***CARBAMATES***
Bendiocarb (Ficam); Carbaryl (Sevin); Propoxur 
Baygon), and others.

ACUTE EXPOSURE EFFECTS:  
   Headache; tiredness; vomiting; sweating; blurred 
vision; stomach pain; dizziness; seizures; shortness 
of breath; SAME SYMPTOMS AS ACUTE EFFECTS OF 
ORGANOPHOSPHATE EXPOSURE.

CHRONIC EFFECTS:  
   Some carbamate may cause GENETIC MUTATIONS, 
BIRTH DEFECTS, and reduced fertility in men and women 
[reduced sperm count, feminization of males, disruption of 
menstrual flow, infertility].  May also damage the KIDNEYS 
and the NERVOUS SYSTEM, with effects including spasms, 
weight-loss, fatigue, and flu-like symptoms, etc..

***PYRETHRINS & PYRETHROIDS***
Allenthrin; Cypermethrin (Demon); Cyfluthrin (Tempo); 
Fenvalerate; Resmethrin; Pyrethrins or Pyrethrum and others
Note:  Some pyrethrin products also contain organophosphate 
or carbamate insecticides.  Many pyrethrin products contain
piperynol butoxide (PBO), a possible carcinogen.

ACUTE EXPOSURE EFFECTS:  
   Lack of coordination; convulsions; muscle paralysis; 
pallor; rapid heart rate; irritability; numbness or 
tingling in the extremities; unusually runny nose; 
ringing, clicking, or pulsation in the ears; blurred 
vision, headaches; tremors; vomiting; burning and 
itching sensation; asthma.  Can induce extreme allergic 
(anaphalactic) reaction; pneumonia; death due to 
respiratory failure.

CHRONIC EFFECTS:   
   Severe allergy including lung allergy with asthmatic 
effects and "hypersensitivity pneumonitis;"  and skin 
rash and itching even with slight exposure.
	
       --Primary Source:  World Health Report 
         from The Encyclopedia of Occupational
         Health and Safety (third revision)
       --Supplemental pesticide information provided 
         by New York Coalition for Alternatives to   
         Pesticides ("Health Effects of Insecticides") 
         Information Summary 

SOLVENTS AND PROPELLENTS

      The label on the Diazinon formulation used at SBU 
indicates that ALMOST HALF of the Diazinon formulation 
was composed of XYLENE, a poisonous aromatic petroleum 
distillates, used as a propellant.   The properties of xylene are 
as TOXIC as those of the pesticides themselves.

Aromatic hydrocarbons, such as xylene, are often implemented 
in cases of injury or death associated with the accidental 
or intentional ("sniffing") inhalation of propellent-containing 
household products. 

SYMPTOMATOLOGY OF XYLENE:
  A.  Acute ingestion or inhalation:
   1. Ingestion causes a burning sensation in the 
      mouth and stomach, also nausea, vomiting, and 
      salivation...  
   2. Substernal pain, cough, and hoarseness are 
      described.
   3. Aspiration into the tracheobronchial tree, either 
      during ingestion or subsequent to vomiting...
      is likely to produce a SEVERE HEMORRHAGIC 
      PNEUMONITIS.
   4. In vapor exposures a transient euphoria is 
      sometimes observed.
   5. Headache, giddiness, vertigo, ATAXIA [inability 
      to coordinate voluntary muscular movements which 
      is symptomatic of nervous injury], and tinnitus 
      [a ringing or similar sensation of sound in ears].
   6. CONFUSION, STUPEFACTION, AND COMA.
   7. Often associated with this COMA are TREMORS, 
      MOTOR RESTLESS, HYPERTONUS [increased rigidity, 
      tension, and spasticity of the muscles], and 
      HYPERACTIVE REFLEXES...
   8. DEATH FROM RESPIRATORY FAILURE or from 
       SUDDEN VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION.
   9. Skin contact with liquid may cause ERYTHEMA 
      [abnormal redness of the skin due to capillary 
      congestion] and even blisters if the contact is 
      prolonged.  Hemorrhagic inflammatory lesions 
      develop on mucous membranes in contact with 
      liquid.

Chronic or Repeated Inhalation:
   1. SEVERE MUSCLE WEAKNESS LEADING TO PARALYSIS....
      CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS [irregular heart beat]....
   2. GASTROINTESTINAL COMPLAINTS including, abdominal 
      pain, nausea, vomiting and hematemesis...
   3. Neuropsychiatric complaints, including (a) 
      LETHARGY, HALLUCINATIONS, COMA or (b) HEADACHE, 
      DIZZINESS, SYNCOPE [partial or complete temporary 
      SUSPENSION OF RESPIRATION and CIRCULATION due
      to cerebal ischemia, localized tissue anemia 
      due to OBSTRUCTION of the INFLOW of ARTERIAL 
      BLOOD] or (c) PARESTHESIA and PERIPHERAL 
      NEUROPATHY [abnormal and usually DEGENERATIVE 
      STATE OF NERVOUS SYSTEM] or (d) cerebellar 
      ATAXIA and other cerebellar signs. 

A warning is given in the treatment of XYLENE exposure:
	
   The known propensity of AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS to 
SENSITIZE the MYOCARDIUM [the middle muscular layer of 
the heart wall] to circulating epinephrine may potentiate
the effects of the "diving reflex" in which IRRITANT VAPORS 
trigger APNEA [cessation of respiration], bradycardia 
[slow heart action], vasomotor changes [relating to nerve centers 
controlling the size of blood vessels] and perhaps CARDIAC
ARRHYTHMIAS (Allison, 1978).       

   AVOID EPINEPHINE [an adrenal hormone used medicinally 
in the treatment of asthma] because of its possible adverse 
effect on the SENSITIZED myocardium.

		 --Source:  Clinical Toxicology of 
                   Commercial Products (fifth edition)
 	                                                        
Even more disturbing for the student population as 
a whole is the fact that XYLENE and other related petro-
chemical distillates contaminants such as benzene can 
cause undetected disruption of the blood and other 
metabolic processes EVEN YEARS AFTER EXPOSURE:

   Chronic benzene exposure eventually leads to...
thrombocytopenia [persistent decrease in the number of 
blood platelets] and ANEMIA.  Anemia may be responsible 
for such signs and symptoms as weight loss, weakness, 
fatigue, headache, lethargy, etc.  Thrombocytopenia 
leads to HEMORRHAGIC TENDENCIES, including petechiae 
[minute hemorrhagic spots on skin or mucus membrane], 
easy bruising, epistaxsea [nose bleeds], bleeding from 
the gums and menorrhagia [abnormally profuse menstrual 
bleeding].

   ...At one time or another, however, almost EVERY KNOWN TYPE 
of BLOOD DYSCRASIS [abnormality] has been ascribed to 
benzene exposure.

   ...SERIOUS ABNORMALITIES in the peripheral blood 
have been found in exposed workers in the complete 
absence of physical signs or symptoms and vice versa. 
There are enormous and unexplained differences in 
individual sensitivity (Greenburg et al., 1939).
                                                      
SEVERE DISTURBANCES in DNA and RNA SYNTHESIS (BENZENE)

   Severe disturbances of the DNA and RNA synthesis...
and increased CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS [abnormalities] 
have been found in peripheral LYMPHOCYTES MANY YEARS 
AFTER EXPOSURE (Forni, et al., 1971; Picciano, 1979; 
Tough and Brown, 1965). 
                                                      
Benzene and ACUTE MYELOGENOUS LEUKEMIA

   For decades Benzene occupied an anomalous [unusual]
position in that most authorities agree that it was one 
chemical where a reasonable cause-and-effect relationship 
established for ACUTE MYELOGENOUS LEUKEMIA [leukemia 
characterized by proliferation of the myeloid tissue 
(bone marrow, spleen, etc.)] in humans (Cronkite, 1961).

   ...Cases are now appearing in the clinical literature 
in which exposures producing acute myelotoxicity were 
followed MANY YEARS later by leukemia (Aksoy, et al., 
1974; DeGowen, 1963; Vigliani and Saita, 1964; Vigiliani 
and Forni, 1976).                                   
                      
                  --Source:  Clinical Toxicology of 
                    Commercial Products (fifth edition)   
        	                                 
I. REFERENCES AND SOURCES

1.  "The World Health Report" from The Encyclopedia of 
    Occupational Health and Safety (third revision, 1983)
    International Labor Organization, Giennva, 
    Switzerland (pages 1637-1647).

2.  Clinical Toxicology of Commercial Products (fifth 
    edition) Williams and Wilkens, Publishers (Baltimore, 
    London, Los Angeles, Sydney), edited by Robert E. 
    Gosselin, M.D., Ph.D., Roger P. Smith, Ph.D., Harold 
    C. Hodge, Ph.D., D.Sc. (pages 397-404).

3.  "Health Effects of Insecticides" (1994) New York 
    Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (NYCAP), 
    PO Box 6005, Albany, New York 12206-0005. 
    (Telephone:  (518) 426-8246).


II.  ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION AND RESOURCES

1.  Chemical Injury Information Network (CIIN)
    PO Box 301 
    White Sulphur Springs,  MT  59645
    (406)-547-2255
    OUR TOXIC TIMES, a monthly publication of CIIN,
    a non-profit institution (available gratis or with
    small donation).

2.  National Center for Environmental Health Strategies
    1100 Rural Avenue
    Voorhees, NJ  08043
    (609)-429-5358
    e-mail:  wjrd37a@prodigy.com

    THE DELICATE BALANCE, a bi-monthly publication
    (Free educational information packet available).
    Clearinghouse and technical services, referrals, 
    policy development, research, support, and advocacy. 
    Tracks chemically injured. 

    EXPERTISE:  indoor air, school issues, pesticides, 
    access and accommodations in employment, housing, 
    education, and public and commercial buildings, 
    and the rights of those disabled by environmental 
    exposures.  

    INFORMATION PACKAGES, publications, educational 
    materials, and technical assistance.
    Presentations and speakers' bureau.
    Member:  President's Committee on Employment of People 
    with Disabilities.

3.  Environmental Access Research Network (EARN)
    Cindy Duehring
    P.O. Box 426
    Williston, ND 58802-0426
    Reviews of research papers 
    (serialized in Our Toxic Times).
    Co-author:  The Human Consequences of the Chemical Problem.
    MEDICAL & LEGAL BRIEFS: A Reference Compendium of 
    Chemical Injury, a bi-monthly publication of the EARN network.  

4.  BIRC (Bio-Integral Resource Center)
    PO Box 7414
    Berkeley, CA  94707
    (510)-524-2567
    THE IPM PRACTITIONER and THE COMMON SENSE 
    PEST CONTROL QUARTERLY, publications of
    BIRC, a non-profit institution providing education
    and research on integrated pest control.
    (Least-toxic pesticide management publications
    catalogue available).

5.  National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides
     701 E Street, SE, Suite 200
     Washington, DC  20003
    (202)-543-5450
    e-mail:  NCAMP@IGC.APC.ORG
    Fax:  (202)-543-4791    
    (Superior collection of education and media resources)

6.  Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
     PO Box 1393
     Eugene, OR  97440
    (503)-344-5044
    e-mail:   NCAP@IGC.APC.ORG
    (Excellent publications)

Additional information in the following post on this thread.

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