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Barry Polisuk San Jose, Calif...
Pointing up this problem, a recent California survey showed that 36 of 49 underground storage tanks in the high-tech Silicon Valley were leaking. The seepage contaminated surrounding soil and fouled pockets of ground water beneath such communities as Santa Clara, Mountain View, Sunnyvale and San Jose. The California assembly, following the lead of eight cities in Santa Clara County that have passed ordinances to prevent such spills, has approved a tough toxic control law. As the measure moves on to the state senate, the mellow industrialists of Silicon Valley, to their acute discomfort, find themselves accused of poisoning their...
...This was once a nice, typical California town," says Lorraine Ross of San Jose, one of 266 plaintiffs in a multi-million-dollar suit against the local plant of the Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp. She and her neighbors are charging Fairchild with negligent contamination of a public well serving 700 residents. They are also holding the company responsible for seven deaths in the past three years, as well as a number of miscarriages and birth defects. "People here were health conscious," says Ross, who blames the congenital heart ailment of her two-year-old daughter Juliana on toxins from...
...issue came to a head early last year, when Fairchild and Intel Corp., another local chipmaker, reported two major leaks in as many months. At the Fairchild plant in San Jose, workers discovered that a faulty storage tank had discharged some 13,000 gal. of a mildly carcinogenic solvent called TCA into the underground water supply. A few weeks later, Intel announced that a concrete vault had leaked, and that traces of a strong carcinogen, TCE, had turned up in a farmer's well near by. Fairchild has spent $10 million cleaning up its spill, and the company steadfastly...
Tuesday midafternoon the journalists headed back to Tegucigalpa from Las Trojes, where they had been checking on firing by Nicaraguan troops into Honduras to harass contra insurgents. Just after the two men's rented car, a white Toyota, passed Honduran Truckdriver Jose Cruz Espinal, he saw a grenade split the car almost in half; then machine-gun fire spattered the road. The shots came from terrain held by Nicaragua's Sandinista government. The killings could hardly have been an accident: the men were almost certainly identifiable as civilians; the attackers probably shot from no more than...