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...most emotional issue involving Arnett is his unyielding stand on the fatal ingestion by waterfowl of spent lead shotgun pellets that hunters scatter in marshlands. Hair, a wildlife biologist, and other environmentalists say that the lead-shot toll may be as high as 4 million ducks annually. They contend that the deaths could be avoided by switching to steel pellets. Arnett's answer: "It's not that easy." Accepting the argument of many hunters that the lighter steel pellets have less stopping power and that consequently more ducks would be injured, he has cut back on his department...
...been built illegally on private land near a gasoline pipeline owned by the state oil monopoly, Petrobrás. The day before the fire, Petrobrás had ordered the wrong pipeline to be opened, causing a leak in the pipeline that ran next to Vila SocÓ. Investigators contend that Petrobrás failed to monitor a pressure buildup on the line and stop the leak. At the time of the explosion, shortly after midnight, gasoline had spread throughout many ditches of the shantytown, creating a liquid bomb that awaited only ignition. Petrobrás admitted human error...
...year after President Ronald Reagan unveiled his proposal for stationing a U.S. missile defense system in space, the basic feasibility of the idea continues to generate superheated controversy. It has been soundly endorsed by two Pentagon scientific commissions, which contend that advances in laser and other directed-energy technology make zapping enemy missiles from space a viable defense strategy. Last week the results of an inquiry into the notion were announced by a nine-man study group of the Union of Concerned Scientists, an organization based in Cambridge, Mass., that supports a nuclear freeze and has been critical...
...present average of 5 min. to as little as 40 sec. "We know very well how to defeat these defensive systems," says Henry Kendall, an M.I.T. physics professor and U.C.S. chairman. "We don't know how to build them." Further work on the project, the U.C.S. scientists contend, will destabilize the strategic balance, which depends on both sides being equally vulnerable to attack. In addition, it would almost certainly force the U.S. to abrogate the twelve-year-old antiballistic missile treaty with the Soviets, dealing a blow to nuclear-arms-control efforts in general...
...basic money supply point toward sharp price increases later in the year. In deed, Salomon Bros. Economist Henry Kaufman expects the discount rate, the price the Federal Reserve charges mem ber banks for loans, to rise a full percent age point in the next two months. Others contend that since the money supply has been growing within its announced target range of 4% to 8%, there is no need to clamp down...