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Show _The ItLakeTribune NATION/WORLD Tuestlay, § Ad Feds Don’t Visit Most Accident WorkSites half the time, complaint inspections find no serious violations, according to an Associated Press computer analysis of six years of the agency’s records. AP obtained records of the 778,000 inspections conducted by OSHAbetween January 1989 and May 1995 and examined the most serious accidents in 1994 and through April 1995. OSHA used its own computers to confirm manyof the AP’s findings. Dearsays OSHAis tryingto address the inspection problems, including experiments to weed out unfounded complaints, better targeting of surprise inspections and building cooperative agreements with industry. Indeed, OSHA is struggling this fall to ward off congressional efforts to cut its budget and curtail OSHA’s authority to conductinspections. Some examples of workplace tragedy: @ The AztecCatalyst Co. chemi- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Three-quarters of U.S. work sites that suffered serious accidents in 1994 and early 1995 had neverbeen inspected during this decade by the federal workplace-safety agency, according to an analysis of recent governmentrecords. Those accidents claimed the lives of 1,835 workers and injured thousands more. Officials at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) acknowledge that their inspectors do not get to a lion's share of lethal work sites until after accidents occur. “Wesave lives where we focus our attention, but we can imDear. Two key reasons OSHAdid not make advancevisits to these lethal work sites are a shortage of inspectors and its mandate to follow up all worker complaints, no matter howroutine. More than 3,000 gallons of toxic chemicals spected by OSHA until oneofits Greece, Macedonia to End Dispute ince also called Macedonia. Simultaneous announcements in Washington, Athens and Skopje, the Macedonian capital, said the Greek and Macedonian foreign ministers will meet in New York next week to take steps to- THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON After monthsof pressure from the Clinton administration and the United Nations, Greece and neighboring Macedonia agreed Mondayto resolve their differences amicably, defusing a flashpoint on the margins of the conflict in Bosnia. The dispute — sparked in part by Greek objections to Macedonia’s flag and the nation’s name — arose because of Greek fears that Macedonia had territorial ambitions in the northern Greek prov- Total number of inspections, by state, done by OSHA between Jan. 1 1989, and May 5, 1995. Table also gives the percent of total inspections done by surprise vs. those prompted by complaints in each state. The remaining percentage invelved other formsof inspection such as those prompted by referrals or accidents. 8 Comp PetSurprise AZ 7082 us 8 cA 70885 500 2n0 co 6657 ar 8 D 2s BB MB Mt 21 «4380 xM 150 S13 NV 166 519 OR uo 758 ™ 5 aD ur 5 LA wy 82 833 company that had been in business for 14 years was never in- and sent 84 people to hospitals. Fire officials had been called to 21 fires at the plant between 1982 and the 1993 blast. OSHA had not inspected the site since 1974. In Phiiadelphia, a worker helping to lay new subway tracks was cut in half in January by equipment used to transport railroad tracks. ComtrakInc. had not been inspectedin eight years, and wasfined $1,800. @In Georgia, a construction prove,” said OSHA boss Joseph William Kunstler — Defender Of Oppressed — Dies at 76 # Inspections rocked by explosions that spewed cal plant in Elyria, Ohio, was four workers was killed when a trench collapsed on him. AP’s analysis focused on 6,411 workplaces where OSHA inspectors recorded fatal or catastrophic accidents in 1994 and thefirst four months of 1995. In most states, mishaps are classified as catastrophic when someone dies orat least three workers are hospitalized. Somestates classify an accident with fewerthan three injuries as catastrophic. HAPPY 90th BIRTHDAY RULON F. SWENSON We Love You! Your Kids, 13 grandchildren and 29 great-grandchildren. ' For Poor Credit! FAST! District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry, Central Park rapist Yusef Salaam. He handled some cases fleetingly. Marlon Brando fired him from his son Christian’s murderdefense team after Kunstler compared the judge to a toad. Colin Ferguson rejected Kunstler’s in- sanity defense that “biack rage” drove him to shoot and kill six passengers on a New York commuter train in 1993. Ferguson claimed he was innocent, represented himself and was convicted. Admirers saw Kunstler as a smart, courageous litigator, and he had some remarkable successes. He helped clear Egyptian immigrant El Sayyid Nosair in the assassination of militant Rabbi Meir Kahane, despite eyewitnesses whotestified he had saot him. Nosair was convicted only on a weaponscount. And he persuaded prosecutors to set aside charges against Qubilah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, who had been accused of 0 years earlier, he had repre- eit Shabazz’s father. But he was best known for defending the Chicago Seven against charges of conspiring to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. “In a political trial such as this one,the court becomesnotjust a place to grind out a decision but also a place to educate the public and dramatize the contradictions between what the law preaches and whatit practices,” Kunstler said at the time. The jury acquitted the seven defendants Ceee Alan Dershowitz, who represent- ed Kunstler on someof his Chicago Seven contempt appeals, said Kunstler “was always going to change the world. I have great compassion for God now because Billis goingto startfiling lawsuits as soon as he gets to heaven.” How Do You Want Your Room...Plain or Padded? Tactics for Today’s Woman. 9 % 9 ¥ GWEN HURST JONES 9 ‘Open house Saturday, Jo Ann Larsen, a doctorofsocial work, teams up with veteran cartoonist Artemus Coleto offer a Dan angSouth Judy~ in4022 West Sve i Weston 90th South, tum. ton or sath West, tun fntat Yorkshireeft at or Cds only pease SoutSr lively prescription Roce for stress and guilt, In text and cartoons,the authorspresent a therapeutic mix of : cereale quotations and thoughts designed to amuse,inspire, anduplift. Paper. $13.95 then earn money as income tax preparers. H&R Block, the world’s largestincome tax preparationservice, offers its Income Tax Course starting September 7, 8. 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Vrabel will be conspiracy his own verdict — findingall sev- INCOMETAX TRAINING COURSE BEGINS SEPTEMBER7, 8 PN Said) of found five guilty of incitement. While the jury was deliberating however, the judge handed down Sanity-Preserving Han Utah 4095. Rai faclace Seite Ebote 80%: EQU eins Lo. NS: ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — William Kunstler, the raspy-voiced lawyer who spoke out for thepolitically unpopular in a controversial career defending ciients including the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the Chicago Seven and others, died Monday. He was 76. Kunstler died at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital of a heart attack. He had a pacemaker installed Aug. 7. He had been hospitalized since Aug, 28 Once dubbed “the most hated lawyer in America” by Vanity Fair magazine, Kunstler saw himself as a legal paladin, an advocate for outeasis and pariahs. 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