Earth Island Journal articles from June 2001

Earth Island Journal archives from June 2001

Dear Journal.
June 22, 2001... Remembering Dave I was deeply touched by your tribute to David Brower. I didn't know him personally. I knew of his ceaseless efforts on behalf of our Earth. He was, and will be, an inspiration to planetary activists. By the time I'd read a...

Ebb & Flow.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... Earth Day Is Coming EARTH -- The theme for Earth Day 2001 is "Clean Energy!" The Earth Day Network's 5,000 member groups in 184 countries [811 First Avenue, Suite 454, Seattle, WA 98104 USA, (206) 876-2002, www.earthday.net] will focus on...

Eco-Mole.
June 22, 2001... A Ruse by Any Other Name For more than 50 years, the US Army's School of the Americas (SOA) at Ft. Benning, Georgia, has trained foreign soldiers who have propped up repressive dictatorships throughout Latin America. SOA training manuals,...

Positive Notes.
June 22, 2001... The StarLink Hero Although his name is not a household word, Friends of the Earth's Larry Bohlen deserves to be celebrated as the "Ralph Nader of snack foods." It was Bohlen who, on a hunch, loaded up a shopping cart with 23 corn products...

Cruise Ships Fail Pollution Tests.(Alaska)
June 22, 2001... For the past decade, the state of Alaska has tried to stay upright while surfing the tsunami of industrial tourism. While cruise ships -- with onboard populations larger than many ports-of-call -- have brought hundreds of thousands of...

Bluewater in the News.
June 22, 2001... Bluewater Calls Out Cruise Ships In their latest round of bad behavior, cruise ships have been found to be discharging astronomically high levels of bacteria and pollutants into pristine Alaskan waters (See C-SAW Project Report on page 7)....

`Let's Sue the Bastards!' (or, `Why Litigation Works').(environmental protection)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Years ago, Herbert Chao Gunther, the director of the Public Media Center, told me that suing one's adversaries in an environmental campaign is a great tactic because it not only provides a real opportunity to achieve victory, but it forces the...

Where Have All the Baby Dolphins Gone?(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... In the debate surrounding "dolphin safe" and "dolphin-deadly" tuna, science has lacked answers to the true impact of tuna fishing on dolphin populations. Proponents of purse-seine tuna fishing (which involves chasing and netting dolphins) claim...

Stop the Navy's Noise.(Low Frequency Active (LFA) sonar array)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... The US Navy has released its Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for its proposed Low Frequency Active (LFA) sonar array The LFA would use underwater speakers to detect "enemy" submarines by blasting the world's oceans with powerful...

"Tuna-Watch" Continues: Dolores Tuna Still at Large.(illegal nets in tuna fishing)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... The National Marine Fisheries Service and US Customs are investigating IMMP's complaint hat dolphin-deadly "Dolores" brand tuna is apparently being smuggled into the US and falsely sold as "dolphin friendly." IMMP staff and volunteers have...

Thursday's Child Sets Sail.(Michael Reppy)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... In April, Michael Reppy sets sail on his third try to break the single-handed sailing record from San Francisco to Tokyo. Reppy's 60-foot ocean-racing sailboat Thursday's Child will again be sailing on behalf of Earth Island in a dramatic...

A Sea Adrift in Deadly Plastics.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Last September, about halfway through my return sail from Hawai'i to San Francisco (40 degrees 05 minutes N 140 [degrees] 30' W) my 60-foot ocean-racer, Thursday's Child, suddenly sailed into a sea awash in white plastic. Ironically, I had...

A Rock`n'Roll Orca-stra.(Keiko's Dream, whale music)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... In February, Mark Berman flew to Oregon for a rock`n'roll show that shook the walls of two concert halls in Portland. Mark wasn't playing the drums or electric guitars, however. He was the featured speaker on Keiko's Dream Tour -- a unique...

In the Hands of the Fishers.(Mangrove forests)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Mangrove forests are one of the most productive and biodiverse wetlands on Earth. Yet these unique coastal tropical forests are disappearing more quickly than inland tropical rainforests, and so far, with little public notice. Growing in the...

World's Best Eco Reporting.(International Union for the Conservation of Nature-Reuters Media Awards)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... JORDAN -- During the World Conservation Congress in Amman, Her Majesty Queen Noor presented the 2000 International Union for the Conservation of Nature-Reuters Media Awards [www.foundation.reuters. com] to nine winning stories, selected from...

Earth Charter Launched.(sustainable development)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... THE HAGUE -- One of the visionary goals of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit was the writing of a new model for global citizenship. After years of dialog, debate and refinement involving thousands of people from hundreds of countries, "The Earth...

Killer Heat Waves.(climate warming)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... NETHERLANDS -- The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has issued an alert that rising temperatures could trigger killer heat waves in Toronto, Shanghai, Athens, and Madrid. Britain's Tyndal Center for Climate Change Research notes that...

CIA Plotted Globalization.
June 22, 2001... EUROPE -- According to historian Herbert T. Schiller, the Marshall Plan was not an altruistic example of post-war reconstruction, it was a cynical tool of economic imperialism designed to promote the European expansion of companies like General...

The Bichlbauer Spoof.(World Trade Organization impostors)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... GERMANY -- A group of cyber-impostors called "the Yes Men" operate a fake website [www.gatt.org] purporting to represent the World Trade Organization (WTO). Last year, an organizer for a conference of global trade Lawyers visited the site and,...

Duma Dumps on Anti-Dumpers.
June 22, 2001... RUSSIA -- Last December, Russia's Central Election Commission (CEC) killed a referendum to halt imports of foreign radioactive waste for storage, reprocessing or burial. The CEC threw out more than one-fifth of the 2.5 million anti-nuclear...

London Goes Green with "Red Ken".(Ken Livingstone wins election)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... UK -- Although the Green Party candidate failed to win last year's election for the new Mayor of London, the Conservative, Liberal and Labour parties are beside themselves for losing this critical election to an independent (former Labour...

Britain's Sub-Diversive Activities.(nuclear submarine accident)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... GIBRALTAR -- The tragic sinking of the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk captured the world's headlines, but another atomic sub disaster poses a continuing threat to Europe. According to The Sunday Times, the 280-foot British nuclear sub Tireless...

Computers Don't Compost.(cyber-trash)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... SWITZERLAND -- Growing stockpiles of cyber-trash -- computers, monitors, circuit boards -- threaten to leach mercury, lead, cadmium, chromium, and PCBs into landfills and groundwater supplies. If these junked appliances are incinerated, the...

EU Says "E-yew" to Toxics.(European Union environmental laws)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... BELGIUM - Swedish Environmental Minister Kjell Larsson is leading a campaign to phase-out toxic industrial chemicals in the European Union (EU) over the next 20 years. The EU already has prepared a list of 11 deadly chemicals used in batteries,...

Cocaine Fuels Globalization.(global demand)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... GERMANY -- Cocaine addiction is becoming epidemic in Germany, and police blame the US drug interdiction program for driving the drug trade into Europe. Germany sociologist Gunther Amendt, however, blames globalization and calls cocaine "the...

DU DOCS: Dead and Disabled.(depleted uranium health hazard)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... UK -- In 1991, Jacksonville State University health physicist Doug Rokke was part of a US Army team sent to the Persian Gulf to help decontaminate 120 US soldiers exposed to weapons made from depleted uranium (DU). Addressing a global...

Green Power at the Supermarket.(alternative energy)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... UK -- Sainsbury's, Britain's biggest supermarket, is selling greens and selling Green. Lights at its store in Greenwich, Scotland are powered by solar panels and wind turbines, several refrigerator trucks are cooled by rooftop PV panels and a...

"30 Minutes to Chernobyl".(Beloyarsk nuclear power plant failure)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... RUSSIA -- A power failure last September disabled the cooling system at the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant, causing the radioactive core to overheat. Alexei Yabtokov of the Center for Ecological Problems of Russia reports that "We were just...

Listen to Swede Reason.(environmental planning)
June 22, 2001... SWEDEN -- On January 2, Sweden ushered in its six-month term as president of the 15-nation European Union by calling for an accelerated effort to save the environment. In a move that puts the EU on a collision course with US "President" George...

The First H-Powered Country.(hydrogen fuel)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... ICELAND -- Ninety percent of Iceland's buildings are heated with geothermal water white geothermal steam spins the turbines that provide 99.9 percent of the country's electricity. Iceland now is preparing to abandon internal combustion engines...

Court Returns Native Land.(Brazilian indigenous people)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... BRAZIL -- Before the arrival of Portuguese in 1500, Brazil was home to as many as five million indigenous people. By the mid-20th century there were only 200,000. In 1973, a Brazilian road-building crew plowing through Mato Grosso and Para...

Stop the "Advance".(development in Brazil)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... BRAZIL -- Avanca Brasil ("Advance Brazil"), a $45 billion government development program, is set to riddle the Amazon Basin with highways, railroads, powerlines and hydroelectric dams. A US-Brazilian study published in Science reports that the...

Dam Fighters Win the Boll Bowl.(Heinrich Boll Foundation environmental award)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... CHILE -- When the Pangue Dam staunched the flow of Chile's Bio Bio River in 1997, even World Bank President James Wolfensohn had to admit the project was a disaster. (The bank loaned Chile $150 million to build the Pangue, the first of six...

Plan Colombia.(drugs and oil in American plan)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... COLOMBIA -- The US claims its $1.3 billion "Plan Colombia" is designed to destroy drugs and "narco-guerrillas," but critics warn that "it's also about oil." As retired US Special Forces Intelligence Sergeant Stan Goff explained in Bogota's El...

Africa to Host Earth Summit.(Johannesburg South Africa)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... SOUTH AFRICA -- Ten years after the historic Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the United Nations will host Earth Summit plus 10 in Johannesburg. The delegates attending this "World Summit on Sustainable Development" will tackle topics ranging...

Globalization Kills Culture.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... KENYA -- The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has warned that "nature's secrets, locked away in the songs, stories, art and handicrafts of indigenous people, may be lost forever as a result of growing globalization." UNEP warns that...

"Mechanism" or Scam?(oil pipeline pollution credits)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... NIGERIA -- Chevron and Shell plan to build a 1,000 km offshore pipeline to shunt gas from oil fields in Nigeria to consumers in Benin, Togo and Ghana. Chevron has asked to have the pipeline recognized as a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)...

POPs Stopped. Will Bush Sign?(persistent organic pollutants ban; George W. Bush)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... SOUTH AFRICA -- Last December, 122 countries agreed on a treaty to ban the production, export, import, or use of 12 of the world's most toxic chemicals -- persistent organic pollutants (POPs) -- that cause birth defects, immune disorders and...

A Dam Shame Avoided.(Narmada Dam in India)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... INDIA -- Despite popular resistance, blockades and hunger strikes, New Delhi officials continue to press for the construction of controversial dams. The dam lobby suffered another blow when the US-based Ogden Corporation withdrew its bid to...

Holy River Dammed.(Ganges)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... INDIA -- The Ganges (Ganga) River has been called India's religious and social lifeline. In February, the waters of the Ganges began to backup behind the controversial Tehri Dam. "This is the last time you will be able to bathe in the waters of...

Vanunu Sentenced to Solitary.(Nuclear whistleblower Mordecai Vanunu)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... ISRAEL -- Nuclear whistleblower Mordecai Vanunu, now in the 16th year of an 18-year prison sentence for revealing the existence of Israel's nuclear weapons program, was sent into solitary confinement last October. Vanunu had been confined to...

Rock`n'Roll Can Save the World.(funding rainforest conservation)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... AUSTRALIA -- Each time you log-on to the Rainforest Jukebox [www.rainforestjukebox.org], the site's sponsors will purchase and preserve the equivalent of two square-feet of rainforest. The website, created by Australia's 20year-old Rainforest...

A Rising Tide Sinks All Islands.(Micronesia ocean levels)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... MICRONESIA -- If you are one of the 7 million people who make their home in a Pacific Island nation, global warming is no longer a matter of debate. As the Earth grows hotter, the reefs, atolls and islands of American Samoa, Micronesia and...

Calling Their Buff.(logging protest)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... CANADA -- When the Texada Land Corp. started logging old-growth Douglas fir and Garry oak on Saltspring Island in November 1999, field naturalist Briony Penn and others protested that the togging was "denuding" the land and disrupting...

Water Plans and Climate Change.(water supply in California)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... US -- The world's climate is undergoing dramatic and possibly irreversible changes, but human institutions are still living in the past. "Water: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change," a report by Pacific Institute...

Betty Krawczyk Freed!(forest-activist)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... CANADA -- On January 24, a Canadian judge released forest-activist Betty Krawczyk from jail [Spring '01 EIJ]. The 73-year-old grandmother was sentenced to a year in jail for nonviolently protesting the logging of British Columbia's Elaho...

Warner Bros Hassles Teen.(fan club violates copyright)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... US -- In Late 1999, after a global cyber-attack from activist hackers nearly paralyzed the company, Internet toy-monger eToys abandoned attempts to shut down a European art group whose domain name was "etoy.org" (Summer 2000 EIJ). Activists...

IRS Pays Billions to Big Biz.(Internal Revenue Service rebates)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... US -- An investigation by the International Herald Tribune and Corporate Crime Reporter reveals that between 1996-1998, 41 major US corporations not only avoided paying taxes, they received checks from the Internal Revenue Service for $3.2...

What Are They Driving At?(protesters push for "greener" cars)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... US -- On January 7, 18 environmental and consumer groups rallied outside the North American International Auto Show to send Ford, Chrysler and General Motors a clear message: "Build cleaner, greener cars." Honda Insight and Toyota Prius owners...

Billions for Renewables.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... US -- Before leaving office, President Clinton authorized a $4 billion program to cut global-warming fossil-fuel emissions. Funds for domestic initiatives were increased 43 percent to $2.7 billion and another $1.7 billion was dedicated to...

Bush Meets Faith-Based Ecology.(Religious Campaign for Forest Conservation protests logging)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... US -- In February, "Interior Secretary" Gale Norton found herself playing host to members of the Religious Campaign for Forest Conservation [409 Mendocino Avenue, Suite A, Santa Rosa, CA 95401, (707) 573-3162], an ecumenical coalition that...

Pot Coppers Seize Crop.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... US -- Alex White Plume, a farmer on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, hoped to improve the Lot of his poverty stricken community by planting a new kind of crop -- a one-acre patch of industrial hemp. Hemp (which is not the same as...

Department of Advocacy.(Department of Energy and nuclear waste disposal)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... US -- Congress is under heavy pressure from the nuclear industry to shift responsibility (and liability) for the country's nuclear waste to the country's taxpayers. If Nevada's Yucca Mountain is approved as a resting place for 70,000 metric...

FDA's "Organic" Label Criticized.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... US -- Under the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) proposed rules for organic produce, farmers claiming to sell Less than $5,000 worth of goods won't need to prove that their foods are truly organic. Fertilizers could be used within 30 days...

FDA's GMO Labels Ridiculed.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... US -- The Food and Drug Administration's decision not to require the Labeling of genetically engineered (GE) food has alarmed food safety watchdogs. "These rules, if they can be called that, are not nearly as tough as those for food additives,"...

What to Call Bush.(Earth Island Journal's names for the President)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Although Vice President At Gore won the popular vote by half-a-million ballots, Republican Governor George Bush was installed in the Oval Office by a partisan, split-decision of the US Supreme Court. Satirist Mark Russell said it best: "In...

The World Needs 'Environeers'.(environmentally-conscious engineers)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... We are a hugely wasteful society," notes Sara Parkin, program director for Britain's Forum for the Future. "Of every 1,000 kilograms each of us consumes every year, only 100 grams is still in use after six months. A switch to sustainability...

The Corporate Cabinet.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... President Inclusive chooses a Cabinet that Looks like America. Just one catch: Every member is a corporate creature. The corporations have taken over the government. Why hire Lobbyists when your CEOs and boardmembers are running the show? ...

The Climbing Cost of Climate Change.(effect of natural disasters on insurance costs)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... N' AIROBI -- Global warming may cost the world several billion dollars a year unless urgent efforts are made to curb emissions of carbon dioxide and the other "greenhouse gases." A report by the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP)...

Global Warming Is Speeding Up.(Hadley Center for Climate Prediction and Research points to major effects as early as 2050)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... UK -- The Hadley Center for Climate Prediction and Research predicts that global warming is likely to increase 50 percent faster than previously feared. The London Independent concludes that the findings paint "a grim future for billions...

Shareholder Activism Goes Green.(corporations increasingly called to account for environmental issues)
June 22, 2001... Frustrated by legislation that is often compromised or unenforced, and legal challenges that can take years to resolve, environmental and social justice groups are challenging corporations head-on through the use of boycotts, direct action and...

Star Wars is Back.(corporate fraud and the Bush-Cheney defense platform)
June 22, 2001... This so-called election was a victory for putting weapons in space, at enormous cost to US taxpayers and to world stability," says Bruce Gagnon, of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space [www.space4peace.org]. The...

Resisting Global Logging.(Maori challenges to Western legal barriers)
June 22, 2001... NEW ZEALAND (AOTEAROA) -- The Land of the Long White Cloud is a land of mystery and wonder, where glacial mountain peaks lower over vast coastal rainforests; where there are countless genera of trees and birds that cannot be found anywhere else...

Where Is Bruno Manser?(environmentalist feared dead in Malaysia)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... BORNEO -- Bruno Manser, a 46-year-old Swiss shepherd made famous for supporting indigenous rainforest tribes in Borneo, has disappeared in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. Manser has been missing since May, 2000 and his Swiss colleagues fear...

`NAFTA for the Americas'.(social, cultural, and environmental failure of free trade in the Americas to be continued)
June 22, 2001... The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is the formal name given to a massive expansion of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The FTAA has been negotiated in secret by trade ministers from 34 nations in North, Central and South...

This Is What Democracy Looks Like.(Porto Alegre, Brazil, a model of organized freedom)
June 22, 2001... PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL -- "Um outro mundo e possivel" (Another world is possible). That's the slogan of the World Social Forum (WSF) underway here. Or, as they said in Seattle, "This is what democracy looks like." In Porto Alegre, this is...

Is Your Bathtub a Toxic Dump?(disease risk factors higher for children)
June 22, 2001... The municipal water that your child drinks, bathes and plays in is a complex chemical mixture of dissolved minerals, contaminants and chemical additives. Chemicals are added to clarify the water, remove solid particulates and disinfect. And,...

Less Tooth Decay After Fluoride.(report reverses decades old prevention strategy)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... CANADA -- It is commonly thought that adding fluoride to drinking water prevents cavities. Now there is growing evidence that the opposite may be true. The February issue of the journal Oral Epedemiology and Community Dentistry reports that,...

Fluoridation and Arsenic: The Hidden Hazards Behind the Faucet.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Ninety percent of the fluoride we use to fluoridate US water systems comes directly from the pollution-scrubbing systems of the phosphate fertilizer industry. This hydrofluorosilicic acid is an industrial-grade (not a pharmaceutical-grade)...

O'Neill, Alcoa & the Environment.(Paul O'Neill, Alcoa Inc., and St. Lawrence River pollution)
June 22, 2001... For centuries, the Mohawks of Akwesasne -- an area straddling the border between present-day New York State and Canada -- depended on the bounties of the St. Lawrence River for their livelihood. The river was central to their communal economy,...

IN THE LIGHT OF REVERENCE.
June 22, 2001... Every working day, bulldozers climb the back of Woodruff Butte in Arizona, quarrying gravel to pave local highways, tearing away rocky sites that have been visited for a thousand years by Hopis on pilgrimage. Woodruff Butte is now private...

Climate Change Demands Radical Action.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... The world's glaciers are melting, the oceans are heating up and the weather is becoming increasingly destructive. All that is the result of a one-degree Fahrenheit increase in temperature over the past century. By contrast, the United Nations'...

The Hydrogen Economy.
June 22, 2001... The biggest stumbling block to switching to a hydrogen economy is that the general public doesn't know what it is. People have not been told about the idea. They don't realize that it is possible to implement a hydrogen economy with the...

The Hydrogen Fuel Economy Heats Up.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Last September, nearly 600 leading energy experts flocked to Munich, Germany to attend Hyforum 2000 [www.hyforum2000.de], the first global summit promoting hydrogen as "the ultimate energy system." "It is expected that the petroleum and...

Power for the 21st Century.(alternate energy sources)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... "I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait till oil and coal run out before we tackle that." -- Thomas Edison In November 2000, the Department of Energy (DOE) warned that increased...

The Micropower Revolution.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Power interruptions cost the US as much as $80 billion annually. In 1997, the First National Bank of Omaha saw its computers crash after a power failure. Today, First National's computer processing center is powered by two fuel cells whose...

The Mystery in Your Milk.(Monsanto's bovine growth hormone)
June 22, 2001... Jane Akre and Steve Wilson, a respected reporting team at WTTV, a Fox Network station in Tampa, Florida, were fired from their jobs after refusing to broadcast what they knew and documented to be false and distorted information about Monsanto's...

SOLUTIONS: 20 WAYS TO EASE OUR IMPACT ON THE EARTH.
June 22, 2001... The Sunfrost Refrigerator Electric refrigerators are the biggest electron-suckers in the average home. The Sunfrost system is 600 times more energy-efficient than a standard fridge. The Sunfrost's walls are three-inches thick and its...

Globalization And Creole Pigs.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... The eradication of the Haitian Creole pig population in the 1980s is a classic parable of globalization. Haiti's small, black, Creole pigs were at the heart of the peasant economy. An extremely hearty breed, well adapted to Haiti's climate and...

Rewriting the Heavens.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... I spent most of New Year's Eve outdoors on an incredibly beautiful night here in Southern Humboldt County, California. I only had to walk a few blocks past town to see a three-dimensional quarter moon high above in the deeply dark blue...

Donella Meadows.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
June 22, 2001... March 13, 1941 - February 20, 2001 DONELLA (DANA) MEADOWS, a cherished colleague and a longtime Journal contributor, succumbed to bacterial meningitis after a short stay in a New Hampshire hospital. Dana's death at the age of 59, was both...

Sam Day.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
June 22, 2001... October 5, 1926 - January 26, 2001 SAMUEL H. DAY, JR., was a reporter, editor, and political activist whose exposes of governmental wrong-doing brought journalism awards and other citations -- including police citations that lead to...