FREE FACTS

1992 earnings of CEO Louis Bantle of U.S. Tobacco, which owns Chateau Ste. Michelle, Columbia Crest and other area wineries:
$25 million

Average yearly earnings of Chateau Ste. Michelle vineyard workers:
$9,000

% of farms that violate pesticide regulations, according to a U.S. Dept. of Agriculture official:
90

# of Washington vineyard workers sickened in July 1993 by the pesticide Phosdrin:
27

% of homeless in King County shelters who are mentally ill or chemically dependent:
30 to 40

% increase in the number of mentally ill Americans who became homeless from 1980 to 1987:
833

# of low-income apartments lost in downtown Seattle since 1980:
4,000

Standard monthly payment to a family of three on welfare in Washington State:
$546

Fine for posting a handbill on a light pole in Seattle:
$250

Maximum possible time in jail for possession of less than 40 grams of marijuana in Washington:
one year

# of uniformed officers working at the King County jail:
327

Amount the American Medical Association (which opposes a single-payer Canadian-style health plan for the US) contributed to congressional candidates in 1991-93:
$4,170,314

Amount of money the American Medical Association gave in 1991-93 to Bob Dole, a chief opponent of the single-payer plan:
$245,787

Average # of paid vacation days per year for unionized Western European industrial workers:
27

Average # of paid vacation days per year for unionized U.S. industrial workers:
12

Estimated daily # of U.S. employee phone conversations secretly listened to by employers:
400 million

% rise in King County population from 1983 to 1993:
21%

% rise in Seattle Times subscriptions from 1983:
93%

% of U.S. counties where abortion is unavailable:
83%