Word: deltas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stinking scow then headed for a dump site just outside New Orleans. When the Mobro arrived at the Delta town of Venice, Louisiana's department of environmental quality sent inspectors to examine the gunk. Although the bales consisted primarily of paper, investigators discovered hospital items -- syringes, bedpans -- that could pose a health hazard. The bales were also beginning to ooze, and inspectors feared the scum would leak into the river. Governor Edwin Edwards half jokingly threatened to deploy National Guardsmen on the levees with orders to shoot if the barge tried to dock. As the vessel meandered about the Gulf...
...rarely productive, but in the control room of a nuclear power plant it can spell catastrophe. For that reason, officials of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission took swift action last week. While investigating a tip, they learned that control-room operators and supervisors at the Peach Bottom nuclear plant near Delta, Pa., have been regularly sleeping at the switch for at least the past five months. Calling the power station, which is 35 miles northeast of Baltimore, an "immediate threat to the public health and safety," NRC officials ordered the plant shut down -- the first such action taken by the agency...
...family with a daughter who suffers from a neurological disorder, a dog was schooled to pick up signals of an impending seizure and alert the girl and her parents. "The dog knows before the girl does that she is going to have one," says Leo Bustad, president of the Delta Society, a Renton, Wash., group that funds pet studies...
...Bethel, a town scattered across the Kuskokwim River delta, there is apprehension about what budget cuts will mean. A region in western Alaska the size of Oregon, with about as many residents as Rutland, Vt. (pop. 18,436), the delta is representative of problems throughout the state. For example, the just completed $4 million Yukon-Kuskokwim youth correctional facility will probably never open its doors. There is no state money to operate it. "So much of our economy has been artificial," says City Councilwoman Diane Carpenter, speaking of a generation of pork-barrel construction projects expensively built on pilings above...
...records of the flights made by the couriers who carried the drugs from Brazil. Since 1981, the ring may have smuggled $1.5 billion worth of cocaine through J.F.K. Last Tuesday narcotics agents arrested 40 people, including 23 present or former Pan Am employees, eight from Eastern and two from Delta. But, says New York City Special Prosecutor Sterling Johnson, "I have no doubt that this is going on in other airports and other airlines. Drug smugglers are limited only by their imaginations...