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...rioting quickly escalated into burning and killing. In Bhiwandi, some 50 Muslim workers and their families sought refuge at the textile factory and home of Ibrahim Ansari, 50, a prosperous Muslim industrialist. A Hindu mob brandishing knives, fire bombs and cans of kerosene descended on the compound. From their barricaded living room, Ansari and his son managed to hold off the attackers with a revolver and a shotgun until police finally arrived. But by that time 20 people had been massacred...
...Orange over Viet Nam in 1965 to defoliate the jungles and roadsides that the enemy was using for cover. The herbicide got its name from the bright orange stripes on the steel drums that contained it. By itself, Agent Orange is not considered unusually dangerous to humans, but a compound produced in its manufacture, dioxin, is one of the most toxic chemicals known. A tiny amount of dioxin can kill some laboratory animals and in others produce liver disorders, various cancers and birth defects. In 1970 the U.S. military stopped using Agent Orange over Viet Nam. By that time some...
...many. For although the proposed Cabinet prudently included representatives from all six of Lebanon's main religious groups, it had only ten seats, and it distributed them in a manner that did less to correct the underrepresentation of Shi'ites and Druze in Lebanese politics than to compound it. Shi'ite Leader Nabih Berri, 44, was given the relatively unimportant portfolio of Justice, Water and Electricity; Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt, 35, was offered Transport, Public Works and Tourism. Said one prominent Sunni powerbroker: "I guess Karami thinks that by co-opting a Cabinet rather than forming...
...developing cancer are probably pretty good." The junkyard laborers are not the only ones at risk. The heavily contaminated truck that Sotelo had driven sat idle for two months on a narrow street in the town's crowded Bellavista neighborhood. (The vehicle was later removed to a compound near Juárez, and then to an isolated area 20 miles from the city.) "Children played on the truck," says Sotelo. "People would stand beside it, talking, and lean back...
...case, David was due back in Boston on Wednesday of last week. His mother called the hotel manager's office from Virginia at 11:15 a.m. and said she was concerned because David had not appeared at the Kennedys' oceanside compound for dinner the night before. Someone was sent to check the room. David Kennedy was found clothed in shorts and a shirt, lying face down on the floor between the twin beds in the room. He was dead...