
DATE: Thursday, October 23, 1997            TAG: 9710230466

SECTION: FRONT                   PAGE: A4   EDITION: FINAL 

TYPE: Focus 

SOURCE: BY STEPHEN BRAUN, LOS ANGELES TIMES 

DATELINE: PASCAGOULA, MISS.                 LENGTH:   25 lines

FOCUS: THE ROACH MEN FOR YEARS, PERHAPS DECADES, UNLICENSED EXTERMINATORS SPRAYED THOUSANDS OF HOMES WITH A SUPER-LETHAL FARM PESTICIDE. BUT NOT UNTIL LAST FALL DID AUTHORITIES SUSPECT THEY FACED A SPRAWLING TOXIC MENACE ON THE SCALE OF LOVE CANAL.

MEMO: [Complete text of this story can be found on the microfilm for

this date.] ILLUSTRATION: LOS ANGELES TIMES

Brad Beaver...

METHYL PARATHION

GRAPHIC

[For a copy of the graphic, see microfilm for this date.] KEYWORDS: INSECTICIDE ROACH EXTERMINATOR

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