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...aldicarb oxime. At the Institute facility, aldicarb oxime is mixed with MIC to form the active ingredient for Temik, a pesticide widely used on citrus crops. Last week's scare occurred when steam accidentally entered a metal jacket surrounding a tank that stored the chemicals, causing three gaskets to blow and 500 gal of the solution to escape...
...wave of national concern that followed, Watts and environs were studied intensely. If no single cause of the rioting was found, the nation still got a picture of a community ripe to blow up: a place of acutely high joblessness, pervasive poverty, crowded housing and a sense of being abused by the police. Now 20 years have passed. What is Watts like today...
...H.N.P, which received 14.1% of the vote in the 1981 national elections, is not represented in Parliament. Even further right is a small (estimated supporters: 5,000) faction that calls itself the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Resistance Movement). Members of the group have been convicted of terrorism for planning to blow up multiracial hotels and "eliminate" black antiapartheid activists...
Sanko's troubles began in 1973 when the Arab oil embargo dealt a severe blow to the world shipping industry by reducing the demand for tankers. Instead of taking that as a warning signal, Sanko continued to expand its fleet, despite growing competition from companies based in other Asian countries. By 1983 an oversupply of tankers had swamped the industry, and Sanko slipped into the red. While in bankruptcy proceedings, Sanko will try to stay afloat by scuttling some of its 264-ship fleet. ENERGY Slippery Job for Lloyd...
...transformation began a few years ago when Elaine, his wife of 42 years, started becoming interested in Buddhism. Last year he had a two-hour meeting with the Dalai Lama, which she says profoundly changed his life. "Whenever Steve gets all uptight and starts to blow, I tease him and say that's not what the Dalai Lama would do, and it helps him greatly because he knows intellectually that he's on the right path," she says. "Guys who are entrepreneurial tend to give short shrift to the family. He's become a much better family...