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...tragic gas leak offers a parable of industrial life
...tragic wake of Bhopal, safety reviews are under way in most of the U.S., the world's biggest producer and user of MIC and other pesticides. Nearly a billion tons of pesticides and herbicides, comprising 225 different chemicals, was produced in the U.S. last year, and an additional 79 million lbs. was imported. MIC is stored or used at plants in New York, West Virginia, Texas, Alabama and Georgia. Those insecticides not dependent on the compound, like malathion, are also construct ed of toxic molecules. Dow Chemical Co., one of the nation's largest producers of agricultural...
Terrorism, in the words of Secretary of State Shultz, is "a new kind of warfare." As the tragic events at Mehrabad Airport demonstrated, the outcome of this conflict could ultimately be determined as much by strength of will as by strength of arms. At week's end there appeared to be no logical way to cope with a few angry and fanatic men who had killed-and were vowing to kill again. -By John Kohan...
After the tragic murder of Indira Gandhi, some Sikhs rejoiced and danced in the streets. There cannot be much happiness left now that death and persecution have come to thousands of them. Why is it that so many people still refuse to see that violence only brings more violence...
...potentially dangerous cost-cutting practices. Among other violations, the FAA contended that the airline falsified safety records, failed to train its pilots properly, postponed aircraft inspections and allowed unqualified mechanics to maintain electrical gear. The emergency grounding gives credence to suspicions that were aroused in September by a tragic error. A propeller-driven PBA plane crash-landed and burned shortly after taking off from a Naples, Fla., airport; one passenger was killed and four others were injured. It was the first fatality in PBA's history. FAA investigators found that a member of PBA's ground crew...