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Elizabeth authorities mobilized the town's entire 250-man fire department as soon as the blaze began. Because dangerous nitric and picric acids, pesticides and plasticizers were stored at the burning dump, officials also closed public and private schools in both Elizabeth and Staten Island, and urged residents to stay at home and keep windows closed...
...would rather keep it all at home," Reardon said. "But I know some of my coaches would dump on that...
...asbestos-like fibers. Company spokesmen continue to maintain that the new basin is "not necessary" and that it was built "only because we were told to do it." But of course the whole problem might have been avoided if the lake had never been viewed as a convenient dump in the first place...
...officials estimate will cost nearly $400 million, is already several months behind schedule. The recovery crews have removed and decontaminated about a quarter of the 425,000 gal. of radioactive water that spilled into one of Unit 2's auxiliary buildings. Construction workers are building a dump-actually a collection of huge vats set in concrete and covered with concrete slabs-to store these wastes on the island until a permanent disposal site can be found...
DIED. Allard K. Lowenstein, 51, Yale educated lawyer and liberal Democratic gadfly who led the anti-Viet Nam "Dump Johnson" movement that contributed to L.B.J.'s decision not to seek re-election in 1968; of four gunshot wounds, apparently inflicted by a former protege; in Manhattan. Lowenstein was active in the 1960s civil rights movement, went to the House from New York in 1968, but was never returned to Congress after that single two-year term...