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Rich Gedman drove in three runs with a homer and a grounder, Dave Stapleton lined two bases-empty homers, and Mike Torrez and Mark Clear combined on a five-hitter, leading the Boston Red Sox to a 7-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers last night. The Sox are now in third place, a game behind the first-place Tigers, in the make-believe pennant race...
...well aware of the need to watch its controllers for any sign of weariness and to keep air traffic limited to their ability to handle it. Reports Temple Johnson Jr., tower chief at Denver's Stapleton International Airport, who checks each controller twice a day: "I look them in the eye and ask, 'How are you doing? Tell me straight.' " As of last week Johnson was pleased at the answers he was getting. So far, they were doing well. -By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Gisela Bolte/Washington and Dean Brelis/New York, with other bureaus
Shortly before sunrise one day last week, a military convoy stretching a full mile snaked its way 3½ miles from Rocky Mountain Arsenal to a runway at Stapleton International airport in Denver. The four U.S. Army trucks eased up beside a pair of C-141 Starlifter transport planes. Aboard the trucks, stacked on metal pallets and tightly harnessed with black nylon webbing, was the deadly cargo. "We've taken every conceivable safety precaution," Brigadier General Walter Kastenmayer told reporters. "I have no concern that we can't do this safely...
...odorless liquid called GB. A good whiff or a splash on the skin can kill a human being within minutes. Dubbed "Weteyes" because tears are one of the first symptoms of exposure, the bombs were built for the U.S. Navy in 1969 and stored just three miles north of Stapleton. But the Weteyes were too close for comfort for many Denverites, and lobbying was intense to move the bombs to Tooele, storage ground for the largest cache of chemical munitions in the free world...
...thousand military personnel and civilians took part last week as the 15-flight "Rocky Mountain Transfer" got under way. Soldiers carrying grenade launchers patrolled Stapleton, and teams of medics with Chinook helicopters were stationed at four points along the air route, which was mapped across the sparsely settled northern sections of both states. In Utah the truck convoy that would carry the bombs 40 miles from Dugway Proving Ground, where the planes were scheduled to land, to Tooele was well rehearsed: drivers and guards had traveled the route three times, foiling nine different mock terrorist attacks along...