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...Manure. Despite treatment, the Libby wastes lying stagnant in the lagoons often smell like rotten meat. In the words of one irate citizen, the odor is reminiscent of "pig manure." Even so, the smells are seasonal, and (to most people) bearable. But last summer's wet weather produced an unusually large beet crop-and the worst smells ever. Fed up, 100 townspeople have now formed S.M.E.L.L.S. (Someone Must Eliminate Libby Lagoon Smells...
They do not have total support. The city council voted in September to halt lagoon operations if it were found that Libby could not control odors. But the mayor, realizing that Libby's 300 jobs are a major source of Hartford's income, vetoed the council's action. So now S.M.E.L.L.S. has taken its case directly to the state's two U.S. Senators and to the state department of natural resources...
...running an estimated 7% below 1970. Prospects are even bleaker for the summer season, normally a busy period for Puerto Rican tourism. The once crowded, palm-fringed beaches near San Juan hotels are now lightly used and cluttered with litter; some are badly polluted. Warning signs along the Condado Lagoon tell swimmers to stay away...
...shields London from charges of interference in local governmental affairs. More than 800 Maldivians work at the base, thereby earning a fifth of the country's total foreign exchange, but they cannot live there. Instead, they commute to work by boat. Those from distant islands sail across the lagoon in dhow-like craft called buggalows, a trip that can take four hours when the wind is wrong and the current strong. Most come from Fedu, a sliver of an island barely 200 yards to the west, rowing back and forth in small, sailless dhonis...
What Negro and the other firemen soon discovered was the most gruesome mass murder in the U.S. since the Tate slayings. In the lagoon-shaped swimming pool in front of the $250,000 house were the bodies of Victor Ohta, 46. his wife Virginia, 43, their sons, Derrick, 12, and Taggart, 11, and the doctor's secretary, Dorothy Cadwallader, 38. Ohta, one of California's most prominent eye surgeons, had been shot twice in the back and once under the arm. The others had been shot in the head, and all were bound with their hands in front...