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...about it. CHEMTREC'S files contain information on 60,000 substances. Its communications lines can link fire fighters and company experts in transcontinental conference calls. For spills of unusually hazardous materials, such as cyanide, chlorine, vinyl chloride and liquefied petroleum gas, chemical manufacturers use CHEMTREC as a communications command center. Dispatchers will then notify the technical team closest to the spill...
...summoned House members for a briefing on Viet Nam. L.B.J. could not contain himself. As Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara described the war, Johnson would leap up, take the pointer from McNamara and jab it at the map. "Tell 'em what's happening here, Bob," Johnson would command. "Tell 'em what's going on down there...
Mellon Professor of the Humanities Zeph Stewart will take at least a one-year leave of absence from the Classics Department to "plan and coordinate the center's activities," he said yesterday. A member of the faculty since 1953, Stewart will assume command this summer...
Diplomatic observers believe that Rifaat negotiated his return during a secret visit to Damascus in October and in talks with presidential envoys subsequently sent to Europe. Among his intentions is to regain command of Syria's elite Defense Companies, a position he lost earlier this year, in part because of his rash use of the unit during a three-way power struggle. Hafez Assad, 54, was then recuperating from a heart attack. By all appearances in recent months, the President's recovery has been complete...
...against any damaging spillover from the war. After a three-day meeting in Kuwait's palatial conference hall, built especially for this summit, the leaders announced plans for the creation of an estimated 2,000-to 3,000-man rapid deployment force, which could operate under a unified command based in Saudi Arabia...