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...more than 1,000 other agencies have adopted Cap-Stun, which is distributed by Luckey Police Products of Fort Lauderdale. Sizes range from the 2-gal. container for riot use to the personal 1/2-oz. canister (price: $9.95). Gardner Whitcomb, 68, started the company with his wife 13 years ago, and has pushed Cap-Stun ever since as a safe substitute for mace. Whitcomb expects sales to quadruple this year, to $1 million...
...just 16% of its daily needs. That would be enough to keep bakeries, meat-processing plants and other essential factories running but would bring most industries "to their knees." Meanwhile, oil shipments had been completely cut off. Though Lithuanian authorities immediately declared that each car could receive only 8 gal. of gas a month, the supply was not expected to last for more than two weeks. Lithuanians could also expect shortages of rubber for making cables and sneakers, sodium for soap powder and television screens, and sugar for candies and confections. Concluded Brazauskas: "We need new political decisions...
...pain quickly became apparent at gas stations, where cars often waited 60 and 70 in line to buy their last 2 1/2 gal. before the stricter rationing rules took effect. Otherwise, there was a strange sense of unreality at the front line of Moscow's economic war. Vilnius residents, many of them following the parliamentary debate over transistor radios, took advantage of a brilliant spring day to stroll Gediminas Boulevard and look into shopwindows that even in the worst of times have been better supplied than Moscow's. There were no signs of hoarding or panic buying. Said a youthful...
...barge loaded with 4.2 million gal. of home-heating oil was pulling away from a terminal near New York harbor last week when two huge explosions tore gaping holes in the hull. Nearly 200,000 gal. of fuel poured into the Arthur Kill, a narrow waterway between Staten Island and New Jersey. For the fourth time this year, a major spill threatened birds, turtles and other wildlife that dwell in the fragile wetlands...
...unit has obtained more than 400 settlements or convictions against individuals and corporations, yielding fines of $26 million and prison sentences totaling 270 years. Among the defendants: Ashland Oil, fined $2.25 million last year for the collapse of a storage tank near Pittsburgh that discharged more than 700,000 gal. of diesel fuel into the Monongahela and Ohio rivers; Texaco, fined $750,000 in 1988 for failing to conduct important safety tests on a California off-shore drilling rig; and Ocean Spray Cranberries, fined $400,000 in 1988 for discharging acidic waste water from its processing plant in Middleboro, Mass...