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...began six years ago on the project. Environmentalists and community residents have repeatedly tried, with some success, to close the plant. This summer, a state judge blocked MATEP from operating for at least several months. The reason, amazingly enough: The University had never checked to see if MATEP's diesel fumes were carcinogenic. Other state investigations found that Harvard had violated numerous testing procedures...
...began six years ago on the project. Environmentalists and community residents have repeatedly tried, with some success, to close the plant; this summer, a state judge blocked MATEP from operating for at least several months. The reason, amazingly enough: the University had never checked to see if MATEP's diesel furnes were carcinogenic. Other state investigations found that Harvard had violated numerous testing procedures...
...bands played, and no crowds cheered, as 593 Argentine soldiers returned home under tight security last week aboard the British ferryboat St. Edmund. The diesel-powered vessel discharged its human cargo, the last of some 11,000 prisoners taken by Britain in the Falkland Islands war, on a windswept dock in out-of-the-way Puerto Madryn, 650 miles south of Buenos Aires. One of the first down the gangplank was General Mario Benjamin Menendez, army commander in the Falklands, who saddened many of his countrymen when he surrendered to Britain's Major General John Jeremy Moore. Military authorities...
Attention has shifted to the installation and testing of the diesels, which have been stored for five years in a South Boston warehouse. Work on the diesel portion of the four-story plant-completely inactive during the interim battle-has become steadily more hectic...
...said last week. "The plant is not going so represent a financial drain" when it begins operating. Although Wyatt declined to make projection on when-if ever-NATEP would begin to cat away the huge red splotch it created on Harvard's general operating account, the prospect of cheap diesel power indicates that the debt will not grow so rapidly in the future...