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...potential death sprawls across 27 sq. mi. of rolling prairie. It is the site of the U.S. Army's Rocky Mountain Arsenal, which produced weapons and chemical agents until 1969. It now harbors corroded canisters of mustard gas, lethal phosphorus wastes from incendiary bombs, unexploded rockets and mortar shells embedded in a former firing range, millions of cubic yards of soil peppered with pesticides and an abandoned five-story production plant contaminated with nerve gas. Two vast man-made lagoons, once used as dump pits for toxic chemical and biological wastes, are the worst menaces of all. Toxic wastes...
...Columbia is planning more of a 'bricks-and-mortar' campaign than we are." Johnson said...
more comfortable dealing with a bricks-and-mortar institution than with a firm like Dreyfus that handles deposits and withdrawals by mail. More important, bank ownership would allow Dreyfus to provide federal insurance for its depositors up to $100,000, a competitive advantage that money funds currently lack. If Dreyfus is successful...
Singling out segments, though, becomes counterproductive in view of Magaril's strategy and art. Using his actors, his musicians, his softened spotlights as mortar and stone, he builds and builds until the overpowering structure needs no outright message to spell out its devastating vision and power. This reviewer, at least, has never before caught herself sobbing at a Harvard play...
...about 5 p.m. Thursday, Hobeika's force assembled at the Beirut International Aiport and moved into the Shatila camp soon afterward. Israeli artillery assisted them with flares and later with tank and mortar fire. There was scattered resistance, and Hobeika's men asked for more flares, more tank fire and later for first-aid assistance in evacuating their own casualties. At dawn Friday, Hobeika received Israeli permission to bring two additional battalions into the camps. As it turned out, only one battalion was used. Throughout the day and all that night, the murderous operation continued. On Friday, Israeli Chief...