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THE WEEK, Page 24SOCIETYEt Cetera
INTO THE BREACH
Mary Fisher, who contracted the AIDS virus from her former
husband and called for more action against the disease at the
Republican Convention in August, has been named by President
Bush to take Magic Johnson's place on the National Commission on
AIDS. The daughter of Max Fisher, a top G.O.P. contributor, she
recently founded the Family AIDS Network, a support group for
families of AIDS patients. Said she: "We're all one family, and
we want to have an end to this epidemic." But she conceded last
week that little is likely to be done before the election.
FULL EXPOSURE
Long listed among the nation's worst polluters, the
Pentagon and the Department of Energy are no longer free to
ignore laws against hazardous waste pollution. The Federal
Facility Compliance Act, signed by President Bush last week,
permits state inspections of federal sites and authorizes heavy
Environmental Protection Agency fines for violations. The new
law comes after years of exposes accusing atomic-weapons plants
of dumping dangerous, sometimes radioactive, by-products.