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...FORCE. McClellan Air Force Base, 10 miles northeast of Sacramento, California, is on the EPA's Superfund worst-case list, and virtually every other air base has its share of problems. Maintenance crews at McClellan used powerful solvents to strip paint from F-15 aircraft and remove grease from F- 111 engine parts. A major electroplating operation dumped chrome, lead and other metals into the ground. Altogether, the Air Force has discovered 177 toxic sites on McClellan's 3,500 acres. Local water wells have been shut down because of contamination. At one site, the TCE level...
NAVY. The Navy's oldest pollution problem has been the waste generated by ships, some of which -- like aircraft carriers with crews of 5,000 -- are small floating cities. For generations, Navy vessels just threw their garbage and industrial wastes overboard. Now sea dumping of toxic materials is unnecessary, thanks to onboard compactors and a vigorous program of reducing the amount of packaging taken aboard...
...best way to keep down future costs is to avoid creating so many problems in the first place. Pollution can be reduced by such technological advances as new non-toxic solvents for washing aircraft engines, and plastic granules to replace grit for blasting paint off aircraft fuselage parts. Baking soda is being tested as a nonlethal paint remover, and scientists are also investigating the potential for lasers to do the job. Noting that bacteria can strip paint from buried tin cans, scientists are examining the feasibility of getting microorganisms to do the same job for aircraft fuselages...
...split Stempel's job in two, promoting president John Smith to CEO and installing as chairman John Smale, retired Procter & Gamble chairman and leader of the directors aligned against Stempel. But GM's problems go back to the free-spending 1980s, when the company invested billions in computer and aircraft firms rather than finding new ways to build better cars, and it will take more than a boardroom coup to turn that around. (See Cover Stories beginning on page...
...only interview Smith granted after last week's coup, he bristled at such criticism and sought to burnish his legacy, telling the Detroit Free Press that Electronic Data Systems, which GM bought in 1984 for $2.5 billion, is now worth seven times that amount and that Hughes Aircraft ($5 billion in 1985) has doubled in value. "That's not too shabby," Smith said. "I think I gave GM a little bit of money to see 'em through...