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...Soviet Union hurled itself feverishly into crash industrialization. The factory at Magnitogorsk grew bigger but never better. Today Russians must cope with the legacy of that era: pollution that blots out the light and deteriorating, inefficient furnaces making steel no one wants. "It's quite common," says a worker, "to commit suicide by throwing oneself into the liquid...
...handling of Chernobyl is hardly reassuring. When workers finished the huge steel-and-concrete shell that entombs the intensely radioactive mass of the shattered No. 4 reactor in late 1986, Soviet officials declared the site safe for at least 30 years. Yet today the sarcophagus is cracked, crumbling and in peril of a disastrous collapse. The melted-down fuel is turning to unstable dust. Contaminated objects are being smuggled out of the poorly guarded 1,092-sq.-mi. exclusion zone. Birds fly into the sarcophagus through holes as big as a garage door; rats breed in the ruin. The structure...
Perhaps they will, but finally the noose seems to be tightening. Last week the U.N. Security Council approved plans to bar all shipments of strategic goods through Serbia and Montenegro, including fuel, steel and chemicals. NATO and the nine-nation Western European Union last week authorized a naval blockade to intercept sanction-busting vessels in the Adriatic Sea beginning on Tuesday this week. Bulgaria and Romania have started patrolling the Danube and inspecting suspicious cargoes. In addition, Bulgaria has banned petroleum exports to all former Yugoslav republics. "The sanctions regime won't plug all the loopholes," said a Western diplomat...
Instead of lifting the arms embargo on Bosnia, as Arab countries have urged, the United Nations decided to administer a stiffer dose of the same medicine. The Security Council plugged the loopholes in its leaky sanctions by banning shipments through Yugoslavia of strategic goods such as petroleum products, coal, steel and chemicals, which until now have been easily diverted from imaginary destinations in Bosnia or elsewhere. While Romania and Bulgaria stiffened controls on the Danube and their borders, frigates from NATO members (including the U.S.) and the nine-nation Western European Union in the Adriatic were authorized to begin stopping...
...farming. As in Ford and Chrysler pickups, the gas tank in GM trucks was mounted inside the cab, behind the seats, until federal regulations in 1973 forced the companies to relocate the tank. Ford and Chrysler placed it underneath the vehicle's chassis, inside a set of heavy-steel frame rails. In GM models made between 1973 and 1987, however, the gas tank was mounted like a saddlebag, outside the frame. This configuration made the tank more vulnerable to side-impact collisions, critics say. GM changed the design in some models beginning in 1988, placing the tank inside the frame...