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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hitherto rejected Western position on the outlawing of bacteriological warfare. For two years the Soviets insisted on lumping bans on bacteriological and chemical warfare together in one treaty. The U.S. and its NATO allies refused, because large chemical warfare arsenals are already in existence, which would require on-site inspection, a procedure that invariably is vetoed by the Soviets. The Soviet switch meant that a treaty barring the production and wartime use of germs and toxins might be ready for signing before year...
...hearings was a little-known development company called Maine Clean Fuels, Inc., which is armed with precious federal permission to import foreign crude and residual oil. Clean Fuels wants to build-but not operate -a $150 million oil-desulfurization plant at the head of glorious Penobscot Bay. The proposed site: the little town of Searsport (pop. 1,800), a drab, faded conglomeration of weather-beaten brick buildings, a railroad depot, an oil tank farm and a Purina Dog Chow silo. Though Clean Fuels had previously been turned down by both Riverhead, N.Y., and South Portland, Me., it was in effect...
...Lourdes, home of the famed Catholic shrine, the basic issue was a controversial million-dollar 300-car garage that Incumbent Mayor Justin Lacaze planned to build a stone's throw from the site of Bernadette's vision. If he were removed from office, Lacaze threatened, ecclesiastical authorities might build a parking lot in a meadow on the other side of the grotto, enabling pilgrims to park, pray and go away without even passing through Lourdes (pop. 18,000). But townsfolk failed to fall for that and for the first time in history voted in an anticlerical Radical Socialist...
...serious technological questions. It would have to be determined, for example, whether a river deposits mud quickly enough to accommodate the projected garbage load. The plan would also be expensive, because the garbage would have to be compressed into dense, sinkable packages and transported by barge to the disposal site. Nevertheless, the two scientists, who are co-directors of the University of Washington's earthquake engineering group, are convinced that their proposal deserves serious scientific consideration. "In an age in which waste material is mass-produced," they write, "only a mass-production disposal technique can be successful...
...marketable, the company must also find a way to lessen the danger of freeze-ups in frigid weather and the problem of quickly getting up steam to start. SES staffers have only to glance out their windows for inspiration. Company offices are separated by a small stream from the site of the original Stanley Steamer works...