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...that his findings "clearly established that a tragedy of major proportions occurred there." On the second: "Certain individuals, either wittingly or unwittingly, by their action suppressed information from being passed up the chain of command." Of the total of 27 charges against the officers, 16 were for "failure to obey lawful regulations" or for "dereliction in the performance of duty...
...Sloan includes the incestuous pair's son Polynices and implies a homosexual relationship with Jocasta's nephew Haemon. A very up-to-date household, indeed. When Oedipus is bent on throttling Haemon at one point, Jocasta begs him to stop, calling out "Oedipus, I am your mother-obey me!" The irony, and the insight, of Sloan's version of the myth is that Oedipus has deeply known it all along, known that the skeleton in every man's closet is himself. So has Jocasta known it. So have the children. This is not, therefore, a discovery...
SWISSAIR Flight 330 was 15 minutes out of Zurich's Kloten Airport en route to Tel Aviv last week when the Zurich tower logged the kind of report that airmen dread. "We are on fire!" called Swissair's pilot. Before he could obey Zurich's emergency instructions, the jet exploded in midair, spraying metal and bodies on an Alpine forest below. All 47 people aboard perished...
...handle those cases-and it fears a flood of litigation. Last week one top Justice official fretted that U.S. attorneys may be forced to choose between prosecuting minor violations and permitting draft evasion. "We're afraid that the people counseling antiwar protesters may urge a massive refusal to obey the regulations," he said. "If that happens, they could so clog up the courts that the entire system could break down...
Though B.A.S.F. executives have promised to obey state anti-pollution laws, the islanders are skeptical. As retired Admiral Rufus Taylor explains: "We're not convinced that a chemical plant can control its effluents, or that any state agency or state laws can make it do so." One example that supports Taylor's claim is a small Tenneco chemical plant operating near Beaufort. A marine biologist recently sampled a downstream creek and found that the water was extremely acidic...