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AIDS breeds panic and paranoia wherever it strikes. Those emotions, along with some legal legerdemain, have led Michigan prosecutors to charge a carrier of the AIDS antibody with assault with intent to murder. The weapon: saliva. Authorities said that Autoworker John C. Richards, 28, scuffled with four Flint, Mich., police officers when they arrested him for drunk driving on Dec. 6. The officers said that Richards became enraged, told them he had AIDS, warned that he was going to infect them and then spat at them. Richards was ordered last week to undergo psychiatric testing...
...fourth Japanese carmaker to begin building some of its autos in the U.S. Honda paved the way in November 1982, when it opened a plant in Marysville, Ohio. Nissan started manufacturing cars in Smyrna, Tenn., this year, and Mazda is scheduled to open a plant in Flat Rock, Mich., in 1987. By 1989 Japanese companies are expected to be producing some 1 million cars a year in the U.S. The four American carmakers will turn out 7.9 million autos this year...
...blueliner will probably be paired with sophomore Jerry Pawloski at the beginning of the season. Pawloski, too, was drafted in June, but the Northville, Mich. native went to Hartford in the 11th round and 215th overall, 198 players after his highly touted charge...
...military parade was followed by 15 brief speeches by both community members and military officials. Speaker of the House Thomas P. O'Neill (D-Mass.) was scheduled to speak but sent Rep. David E. Bonior (D-Mich.) instead. Bonior is the first Vietnam veteran to be elected to Congress, said master of ceremonies Thomas J. Boyle...
...some 40 years, beginning in the 1930s, the Velsicol Chemical Co. (formerly the Michigan Chemical Co.) had dumped and burned toxic industrial chemicals on a 3.5-acre site along the Pine River near St. Louis, Mich. A county golf course was developed beside the dump. By the mid-'60s, fish in the river contained high levels of such known or suspected carcinogens as PBB, PCB and DDT. Working with EPA, the company in 1982 agreed to spend $38.5 million to clean up the area. At the golf course, all soil was removed to a depth of 3 ft. below...