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...struck an agreement with a newly created Belgian disposal company named Vebeka. Elias got a seat on the company board and Vebeka got a license to dump wastes in the cavernous old factory; the town would get 55? per ton of the lethal garbage. Vebeka Chief Adrianus Van den Bogert, a Dutch citizen, told the villagers: "There isn't any danger at all, believe me. I have experience in these things...
Lethal Chemicals. Nonetheless, fearful Hannêche authorities refused to renew Vebeka's license, so Vebeka went out looking for new dumping grounds. "I had to do something," says Van den Bogert. "Several big transports were on their way: twelve tons from West Germany, 18 tons from Switzerland, 20 tons from Sweden." So he joined with another Belgian firm and made new arrangements. In Hasselt, for example, he left 50 tons of lethal chemicals in a shed just 100 yards from the Albert Canal, which supplies Antwerp with its drinking water...
Belgium has plenty of laws designed to protect citizens from buying toxic products but none to control the disposal of toxic wastes. Van den Bogert and other entrepreneurs openly and legally took advantage of the situation to turn Belgium into Europe's dump. Belgium even made a profit from all the business-confirmation of Premier Gaston Eyskens' maxim that "prosperity is more important than the quality of life...
...Vanilla Fudge broke up with the passing of the psychedelic age. Carmine Appice, the drummer, and Tim Bogert, the bass player, asked Jeff Beck to come over from England to see if they couldn't cash in on the success of the "heavy" sound being popularized by Cream and Jimi Hendrix. But Beck was involved in an auto accident and never made it. So Tim and Carmine hung around Long Island wondering what to do. Somehow they got hooked up with Jim McCarty, former lead guitarist of the Buddy Miles Express, and vocalist Rusty Day. This meeting produced a group...
...blonde Effie Taylor swirled to Meyer Davis' tunes, some 800 guests danced the night away in a fountained fantasy of silver and blue at Beverley Bogert's many-gabled Anglesea. Bubbled Effie, a freshman next month at Bennett College in Millbrook, N.Y.: "I really had a good time." So, agreed her guests, did everyone else...