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...least combat-worthy planes in Portugal's entire air force, made a diving run toward the city's commercial airport. They dropped three small bombs on a nearby barracks housing the 1st Light Artillery Regiment, then swooped in once more for a desultory strafing run on the compound, using 30-cal. machine guns...
Chisso's trouble began in 1950 after it opened in the fishing port of Minamata an acetaldehyde factory that began to discharge effluents into Minamata Bay. One of the waste substances: a highly toxic methyl mercury compound that was passed up the food chain from tiny organisms to small fish to the larger fish that comprise a substantial part of the townspeople's diet. By 1953 the mercury contamination had reached a dangerous level in some people, who began to suffer the crippling symptoms of what is now referred to as Minamata disease. Howling in pain and racked...
...most accounts, Richard Nixon has been leading a reclusive life since leaving office, rarely venturing outside the walls of his Casa Pacifica compound. But in recent weeks his existence has opened up a bit. On Feb. 9, when the six-month transition period designed to prepare ex-Presidents for private life officially ended, Nixon seemed in reasonably good spirits, almost jaunty, at a farewell party for departing aides. That left the staff still on his federally allotted payroll at five, including Secretary Rose Mary Woods. Also on hand are four volunteer associates, like former Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler, who perform...
...than 14% during 1974's final quarter, the monthly rise in the cost of living began slowing noticeably; the consumer price index rose by one percentage point or less in October, November and December. In January the CPI'S rate of rise tapered to 0.5% for a compound annual inflation rate of "only" 6.2%-the lowest since April of last year. Reason: food prices, a major component of the CPI, peaked in November and have been easing since...
...guerilla groups in the Guantanamo and Santiago areas") at his glittering New Year's Eve party. Hordes of men in tuxedos and women in long gowns spill out of the ballroom, down the marble steps of the collonnaded Presidential Palace, stampeding to the relative safety of the American Embassy compound. (Michael, of course, has his own chauffeur waiting to take him to his private plane). It only lasts for a moment, but the violence of the first confused stages of this revolution provide a glimpse of a different kind of violence than pervades the rest of the film--a violence...