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Lately, popular fears have been stirred by a rash of mishaps involving salt domes. Last June methane gas exploded at a salt mine on Belle Isle, La., killing three miners and injuring 17 others. In November an oil-drilling rig accidentally punctured a salt-mine shaft under Jefferson Island, La., sending much of a 1.5-sq.-mi. lake gurgling down into the dome. The most frightening accidents have involved still another use of salt domes: as cheap, convenient storage tanks for crude-oil and natural-gas products. Last fall hundreds of people had to flee Mont Belvieu, Texas...
Martha C. Coburn, associate dean of the College, said this week that she recommended the dissolution of HDNS after investigating the service's most recent rash of financial problems, which last spring included more than $14,500 in missing funds, of which $6000 to $7000 was allegedly embezzled by Martin Olive '78-4, HDNS manager until a year...
...bare maintenance of welfare outlays at present levels-30% of a national budget of $150 billion-demands a 2% annual increase in national production. But economic growth is expected to drop to zero this year. What to do? The government last winter froze wages, an act that provoked a rash of strikes and poisoned the social climate. The 1.4 million beneficiaries of state aid, a potent political force, have so far managed to blunt major attempts at social services reform in parliament. "Everyone agrees to the welfare state, but not on how to pay for it," concludes Wim Kok, head...
...student protest group calling itself GUERRILLA-Galvanized Undergraduates for the Effective Reinforcement and Response to Ignored but Legitimate Legislative Actions-Claimed responsibility yesterday for a rash of violations of the University's new regulations on posters...
...Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader, said that many Blacks believe that the recent murders of Black children in Atlanta, the rash of incidents on college campuses, and the Greensboro acquittals are part of a "nationwide conspiracy" against blacks. This sentiment, Jackson says, coupled with the election of Ronald Reagan, has resulted in "hysteria" in some Black communities...