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Charleston Gazette questions the impartiality of a Rand Corp. report recommending that a federal no-fault workers' compensation system, rather than the courts, should arbitrate claims from asbestos victims, because Rand board members and trustees have been directors of the nation's largest asbestos manufacturer; also, the report was largely funded by insurance companies and corporations that would benefit from "tort reform," Jan. 19 and March 9, 1986.