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...Carlos de la Rapita, Spain, July 11,1978. An overloaded 38-ton tank truck carrying 1,518 cu. ft. of combustible propylene gas skidded around a bend in the road and slammed into a wall, sending 100-ft.-high flames into a campsite where 780 tourists were eating, sunbathing and swimming. The death toll...
...course, no ordinary refrigerator. The 3-cu.-ft. model used aboard the Navy's P-3 Orion antisubmarine plane had to operate at high altitudes and in turbulent weather, resist vibrations and not affect the aircraft's sensitive electronic gear. Even so, it hardly seemed worth the price the Navy paid...
...effort to stem the tide of destruction, workers with the Southern Pacific Railroad maneuvered a large crane last week along a 27-mile causeway built of 50 million cu. yds. of rock, sand and gravel that divides the lake into north and south sections. The aim of the engineers: to begin carving a 300-ft. breach in the causeway, the final step in a three-month, $3.2 million project. If they are successful, water on the south side of the lake will fall about 9 in. during the next two months, lessening the threat of floods to Salt Lake City...
...signs are inconclusive but fascinating. First, Iran has failed to launch the "all-out" ground offensive that was supposed to destroy the Iraqi government of President Saddam Hussein. Then, last week, both Iran and Iraq, at the behest of United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, agreed to refrain from attacking civilian targets, at least for a while. Later they also agreed to allow U.N. observers to be stationed between their armies. In the meantime, the speaker of the Iranian parliament, Hashemi Rafsanjani, declared that Iran would call off its assaults on shipping...
Central America. Hart's policy can basically be summed up by an antiwar slogan from the 1960s: "Out Now." He calls for the "immediate withdrawal" of all troops from the region, and he would simply cu off U.S. military aid to El Salvador unti all death-squad activity ceased. Mondale would link U.S. aid to El Salvador to progress on land reform and an end to the death squads. He would continue the U.S. efforts to interdict the flow of arms from Nicaragua to the Salvadoran rebels, but unlike President Reagan, he would not back the contras against...