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...victim of the B.N.L. scandal was Marianne Gasior, who blew the whistle on the Pennsylvania company she worked for, called Kennametal, when she learned that it was shipping sophisticated machine tools that could be used in weapons manufacture to companies controlled by Iraq. Some of the equipment was purchased with a B.N.L. letter of credit. Kennametal denies any wrongdoing. Gasior says that when she tried to report the sale to Justice Department officials, she was alternately ignored and badgered by prosecutors investigating the case until she finally took her complaint to Congress. Says Gasior: "Justice refused...
PREDICTING VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS IS A NOTORIOUSLY inexact science, and no one knows that better than people along the "ring of fire" that extends through Southeast Asia. Without warning last week the Philippines' Mayon volcano blew up, killing at least 68 and driving thousands from their homes...
Those who blew off the opener missed an excellent third period of hockey. Northeastern scored three times in the last 20 minutes to rally for a 4-3 win, Jason Melong scoring the winner with 4:53 left...
Sunday afternoon, though, Harvard took a first step towards re-establishing its national pre-eminence and dashing the hopes of the insurgent preppies from the south: The Crimson blew out the Tigers 6-3 in a dual meet at Princeton, claiming the contests' first five matches...
...Israeli officials are enraged at the very prospect of facing U.N. sanctions. "To put us in the same category as Iraq, Serbia and Libya -- it's unacceptable," says Rabin's spokesman, Gad Ben-Ari. "We've not swallowed another country or massacred thousands of people or harbored terrorists who blew up a packed airplane." To . block approval, Jerusalem has embarked on an intensive lobbying effort. Rabin took the unusual step of calling all ambassadors accredited to Israel to a late-night meeting at his office in Tel Aviv. There, they were served cold sodas and an hour and a half...