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This is not the first time government negligence has caused a blowup in Guadalajara's sewer. A similar leak of chemicals in 1983 sent trees and cars flying in a 10-block area and injured 48 people. There have been other explosions in the country since 1978, including a series of gas explosions on the outskirts of Mexico City in 1984 that killed at least 400 people. Fearing a repeat of the Guadalajara episode, last week officials evacuated sections of Mexico City and Saltillo after finding gas leaks there. The angry public mood in Mexico may give President Carlos Salinas...
Taplin himself, an engineer, has invented several items, including a leak-free piston seal to reduce pollutants from vehicle exhausts which is now widely used. Other Taplin creations include devices to regulate cabin pressure in high-altitude aircraft and speed controls for aircraft engines...
RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT THE REFORMA DISTRICT OF Guadalajara, Mexico, had complained bitterly last Tuesday about the strong smell, like gasoline's, that was wafting up from the sewers. City officials could not find any leak, however, and called off their investigation just hours before a series of explosions ripped up the streets Wednesday morning. More than 200 people died, and 15,000 others lost their homes...
...poisonous gas leak at the Mallinckrodt Chemical Laboratories yesterday was brought under control in approximately one hour and a half, fire officials said...
...know things are bad when folks at the White House joke about the good old days under Sununu. SAM SKINNER is taking some heat for the current drift at Bush Central. The White House chief of staff met with top Bush operatives last week to discuss leaks, a phenomenon with which some of those in the room certainly have a passing acquaintance. Assuring the group that he assumed none of them would ever leak, Skinner asked them to help stop unauthorized chatter. Some left the meeting shaking their heads. Many of the most damaging comments from Administration insiders of late...