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...Manhattan skyscrapers ten miles away. On July 4, an industrial-paint-manufacturing company that stored chemical wastes in its backyard flamed into a four-alarm blaze that spread toxic fumes over the city of Carlstadt, N.J. Three days later, storage drums at a chemical disposal plant in Perth Amboy, N.J., erupted in a barrage of explosions and a roaring fire that wiped out seven buildings and 16 businesses in an industrial park. Nearby residences were evacuated for several hours because no one knew how toxic the spreading smoke might...
...feisty octogenarian who remained behind at his lodge near Spirit Lake, in the volcano's shadow. It was also taking a psychological toll. The renewed ashfall, along with the danger of fresh flooding and mudslides, forced an exodus of residents from the nearby towns of Cougar, Ariel and Amboy to makeshift refugee camps. It was their second evacuation, and the volcano's continuing assaults were beginning to fray tempers. Said Otis Bouchard, a gas station operator in Castlerock: "I'll tell you one thing. I'm getting damn tired of this mountain." Tom Nelson, a supervisor...
...familiar voice told him to look under the shelf of a nearby phone, where he found written instructions. He was to stuff his documents into a used milk container and make the drop at the base of a telephone pole on Fulner Street in South Amboy. Waiting for him there was a red coffee can containing $3,000, which brought his total payoff to $16,000. The can also held another message: "By the way, have you paid attention to my request to pass over to us films of the latest documents dated 1976-1978, if possible?" Some...
...they had wanted to seize the three Soviets months ago, but that the State Department was reluctant to have the U.N. employees arrested. The department dropped its objections, says the FBI, when shown photographs of the Russians retrieving that sour-smelling milk carton from the base of the South Amboy telephone pole...
...alleged to have been the "triggerman" in the recently dismissed Green Beret murder case in Viet Nam: Denise Marasco, 25; on grounds of incompatibility; after 6½ years of marriage, no children; in Juarez, Mexico. Two days later Marasco was critically injured in a traffic accident in South Amboy...