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...Homicide Detective David Calhoun, it seemed at first like a rock-solid case. A minister and his two children had been walking by a Houston motel last month when they saw three men spill out of one of the rooms. Two of them were shooting the other while he begged for mercy. The churchman saw the murderers clearly and Calhoun knew that he was going to make a "super witness." But then the minister was paid a visit by two men, once at his home and again outside Houston police headquarters on the day he was to identify one captured...
...eight feet deep. The investigation showed that "there appeared to be gasping." One may hold on to those images for a while, along with the reference to the mother fishing out one child by the heel, then placing him back in the river. But eventually it will all spill together-milk, gasoline and water. Two days hence will find the Syrians saying something and the Soviets saying something and Asia will be overrun by the Cabbage Patch dolls. Why does it feel necessary to grasp this information? All the music and poetry in the world, and the mind hungers...
...major spill brings a harsh rebuke from Soviet authorities
...spill has created an enormous cleanup problem. Millions of tons of salt settled to the bottom of a large reservoir behind the Novodnestrovsk Dam, 300 miles downriver from the accident. Vasilyev said, however, that the salt was gradually being flushed out by mixing it with fresh water, so that the river might be restored to its old purity in a few months. Still, even if the effort is completely successful, there may be long-term repercussions, political as well as environmental. Vasilyev bluntly accused officials, presumably those in charge of designing and managing the potash plant, of ignoring two warnings...
...addition, the R.D.F. units that could be dispatched to the Middle East are also earmarked to reinforce NATO during a European crisis. European allies would surely howl that they could not be spared, since a Middle East war might spill over into Europe. Former Secretary of Defense Harold Brown warns that even in relatively minor trouble areas like Lebanon, prolonged deployments "are manageable over a period of months-but if they go on for a year or more, they could reduce our ability to deal with a major contingency...