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...defendants are going to pay for it harshly," said Illinois Judge Ronald J.P. Banks last week as he sentenced three officials of the now defunct Film Recovery Systems Inc. of Elk Grove Village, Ill., to 25-year prison terms. Banks had earlier ruled that the managers were guilty of murdering Employee Stefan Golab, who died in 1983 after inhaling poisonous cyanide fumes inside the plant. During the trial, F.R.S. workers testified that their employers had not warned them of cyanide's dangers. In fact, they said, at management's behest some skull-andcrossbones warning symbols had been scraped off cyanide...
...father, a Glasgow theater electrician and distillery worker, came to the U.S. in 1923, when Doug was seven, and eventually took a job at Chrysler's now defunct De Soto plant in Detroit. Fraser, who became a citizen with his parents in the late 1920s, followed his father into the factory and became active in the fledgling United Auto Workers union during the organizing drives that preceded World War II. He rose through the ranks to serve as U.A.W. president for six years, beginning in 1977, and earned a reputation as one of the nation's most respected labor leaders...
...trial without precedent: three corporate officials accused of murder after one of their employees died as a result of hazardous conditions in the plant where he worked. Last week Illinois Judge Ronald J.P. Banks issued the stunning landmark verdict: the executives and the now defunct Film Recovery Systems Inc. were found guilty in the 1983 death of Stefan Golab by cyanide poisoning...
Less decadent sounds and more dancing mingle at three chain-owned clubs--including Spit (10 Lansdowne St.)--all out by Fenway. The Paradise (967 Commonwealth Ave.) features consistent rock bands with ex-member of defunct The Jam, Bruce Foxton on July 11. The Metro (15 Landsdowne St.) has dancing, but disregard rumors that The Stanglers will be there this Thursday...
Smith concedes that he would have been deeply disappointed if Perot had rejected GM. "We were seriously discussing buying a defunct college in Iowa, hiring scientific talent and teaching our people about data processing and electronics," Smith recalls. "With E.D.S., we weren't just buying a bumper and a fender. We were getting a running Indianapolis 500 racer at the starting line, already preparing to run away from the pack...