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...mistrust now." Which is why, now that the Army wants to destroy the state's 13,000 tons of deadly poisons, many residents are in no mood to comply. Since last August, the Pentagon has been conducting test burns of the weapons stored at Tooele County's Deseret Chemical Depot, just 35 miles southwest of greater Salt Lake City's 1.3 million residents. For the Pentagon, there is a sense of urgency about getting rid of these chemical-laden rockets and bombs, which are crammed into 208 earth-covered igloos. For one thing, the Chemical Weapons Convention ratified...
...feeding the hungry. Alarm company ADT gives away personal-security systems to battered women. Avon Products is helping fund the fight against breast cancer. Kimberly-Clark is building playgrounds in poor neighborhoods. Barnes & Noble promotes literacy. Coca-Cola is sponsoring local Boys and Girls Clubs. Nike, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, BellSouth, MCI and Starbucks all have pet social causes, as do countless other companies big and small. There are some 800 companies belonging to a San Francisco-based group called Business for Social Responsibility...
HUPD charged him with trespassing in Matthews Hall. Ntshanga was actually working in the linen depot in the basement. The charges against him were later dropped...
...brief, the government adduces other evidence linking McVeigh to the truck-rental agency. Records show that on April 14, 1995, at 9:53 a.m., the agency received a call from a pay phone in a Junction City, Kansas, bus depot. Thomas Manning, who worked in a store across from the depot and sold McVeigh the car he was eventually arrested in, is prepared to testify that McVeigh was in the store but left briefly at about the time of the call. Also, a cabdriver will testify that he drove McVeigh to a McDonald's near the truck-rental shop...
...Pentagon believes up to 20,000 U.S. troops may have been exposed to such poisons when they destroyed chemical weapons at the huge Kamisiyah depot in southern Iraq. But one leading investigator, James Tuite, says the emphasis on Kamisiyah is just the Pentagon's way of denying the scope of the problem. Tuite, who did a ground-breaking Senate study on the topic in 1993, believes soldiers are ill because of widespread allied attacks on Iraq's chemical-weapons factories and depots during the 39-day air war that began Jan. 16, 1991. During that assault, the U.S.-led alliance...