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...accident. Fire suddenly swept Gateway's $110,000 main building and also wrecked some $60,000 worth of equipment the clients were assembling. Yuba City fire investigators said the blaze was apparently a case of arson, but they could not explain it. Gateway Director Donald Garrett, 43, a jovial, bearded man who weighed a jovial 300 lbs., moved all of Gateway's work to a smaller building that housed the upholstery project...
...March 1, a Molotov cocktail smashed through a window of the upholstery shop and started a new fire. It also set off a fire alarm, however, that kept damage to a minimum. Garrett publicly pleaded with the attacker to leave the clients alone. "If someone is doing this intentionally," he said, "I hope they will try to receive psychiatric help...
There was gossip that the attacks might be connected with Garrett's private life. His 15-year marriage had broken up, and he had moved into an apartment in the Sugarhouse complex just a few days before the first fire; there was talk too that he was involved with another project staffer and that she had a friend who was jealous. Still, Garrett was respected and popular. On April 5, the staffers gave Garrett a birthday party. The next day, a Sunday, Yuba City firemen got another call, went to Garrett's apartment, and found his body, doused...
...require a capital investment of about $30 billion. The President believes the Government has better uses for its money, especially since private industry wants to get into the nuclear-fuel business. Bechtel Corp. and Goodyear have already proposed one plant, and several other companies, including Exxon, Arco Electronucleonics and Garrett Research, have indicated interest in building others. As an important side benefit, federal experts say, private companies can compete abroad for nuclear contracts more effectively than the Government...
...that coercion diminishes freedom and is especially hard on the poor, these crisis environmentalists admit that the metaphor of an overcrowded lifeboat is a harsh one, requiring harsh ethics, but that it is "the basic metaphor within which we must work out our solutions," in the words of Mr. Garrett Hardin, author of "Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor." Mr. Hardin's argument is that humanity may be likened to a cancer, spreading over the body of the earth and that "as the fast-reproducing poor outnumber the slow-reproducing rich," they will come to depend more...