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After a two day search, workmen patched the leak which was found Monday in the section of an oil pipeline underneath a Metropolitan District Commission parking lot on Soldier's Field Road. The oil, which does not contain cancer-causing PCBs, is used to cool a 115,000-volt electrical transmission line that connects Cambridge and Brighton...
...justice -- or bad law? That was the question last week after an Indian district court judge ordered the Union Carbide Corp. to pay $270 million in interim relief to the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak. The disaster claimed 2,866 lives and left some 40,000 people seriously injured. In a 17- page ruling, Judge M.W. Deo argued that while "diverse loud voices" hold up a settlement, the "poor gas victims" continue to suffer. The courts, he said, have "inherent powers" to administer justice...
...friend of Duarte's. Interviewed on a local television station, D'Aubuisson accused Nuila of responsibility for death-squad killings. The charge against Nuila may be D'Aubuisson's warning to other members of the military to get behind the right or else face damning evidence he might leak to the public. Said retired Colonel Sigifredo Ochoa, a prominent member of ARENA: "Duarte is talking peace but provoking more war. If we have to fight, we will fight -- it doesn't matter what the consequences...
...surrounding Sequoyah Fuels is five percentage points higher than the national average. Is there a connection? Local residents think so: Sequoyah Fuels processes uranium concentrate into ingredients for bombs and nuclear-power- plan t fuel. The factory has been cited in the past for safety lapses, including a 1986 leak that killed one worker and released toxic uranium hexafluoride gas into the environment. Moreover, it is owned by Kerr-McGee, the Oklahoma City-based company implicated in the radioactive contamination of 73 workers at another facility -- the case uncovered in 1974 by the late Karen Silkwood...
Last week the court came close, upholding the mail- and wire-fraud conviction of R. Foster Winans, a former Wall Street Journal columnist who was paid by stockbrokers to leak information about upcoming stories on particular companies. The court also let stand his conviction on a securities-law violation. Investigators had feared that an adverse decision in the Winans case could cripple their efforts to go after big-time insider traders like Ivan Boesky and Dennis Levine. The high court's action, said Gary Lynch, head of enforcement for the Securities and Exchange Commission, "is tremendous news...