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...reason to believe there were "good amounts" of uranium on his property. Riggio reacted by getting in touch with Exxon, a Pennzoil rival. Exxon reacted by drilling some test holes on Riggio's land and two other tracts in the area. "The results," said J. Wiley Bragg, a spokesman for Exxon Co. U.S.A., "were not discouraging...
...declared that jobs created by mining would be good for his town, adding that he trusted the state's department of environmental protection to work out any ecological problems. The department in turn said that it was relying on the oil companies to prevent environmental damage. Declared Bragg: "We know that people are concerned with the environment. So are we." Twenty years ago, most citizens would have been satisfied with such statements. But, like other Americans, Jefferson Township inhabitants are now haunted by memories of things like the Santa Barbara Channel spill, charges of oil price manipulation...
...former Green Beret physician told the jury that four drug-crazed intruders had slain his pregnant wife and two daughters in their Fort Bragg, N.C., duplex. But the combination of a blood-soaked pajama top and his vengeful fathher-in-law cast doubt on that story, and last year Jeffrey R. MacDonald, 36, began serving three life terms in a California prison. Now, as a result of a 2-to-l decision last week by a U.S. appeals court in Richmond, MacDonald may become a free man once again. The reason: investigative delays violated his constitutional right to a speedy...
...Florida's panhandle early one morning this month: 2,640 soldiers leaping from 20 huge C-141 jets, along with three more planeloads of Jeeps and other heavy equipment. They came from the XVIII Airborne Corps and the First Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C. If war or the threat of war were to come in the Persian Gulf area, these paratroopers likely would be the U.S. spearhead...
Late in the afternoon, the Paratrooper is trucked with the others to barracks alongside the airfield at Fort Bragg. Here they will spend the night. But first their jumpmasters must check them in and assign them positions for the drop. It is a long, dull procedure, and the Paratrooper smiles when he thinks how much like a flock of sheep or a herd of cows they all are-passive, oblivious to the time and space they occupy, psychically removed. In their minds many of them are, like himself, already in the plane or stepping...