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Four days after chastising the military for buying expensive spare parts, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was scheduled to fly to California in a well-appointed VC-9C. Purpose: a two-hour visit to the Oakland Naval Supply Center. But there was another reason to head west: a two-day stop at the annual gathering of the exclusive Bohemian Club near San Francisco...
...P.L.O. meanwhile went about gathering more of the recognition that has recently increased its power. Arafat visited Moscow for the seventh time and met with Soviet leaders. The Palestinians also cracked down on dissidents responsible for the skyjacking of a British Airways VC-10 whose crew and passengers were released earlier in the week. The four Arabs who had seized the plane to obtain the release of Palestinian prisoners and also embarrass the more moderate P.L.O. were detained in a Tunisian jail. P.L.O. agents swooped down elsewhere to grab 26 other dissidents. They were accused of supporting a breakaway group...
What followed was a suspense story with enough tension, surprise and heroism to make a palpable TV hit. One of the rebellious prisoners, for instance, was Adnan Ahmed Nuri, a Palestinian terrorist who was serving five years for hijacking and burning a British Airways VC-10 last March. Actually, the instigators were two Dutch criminals who were doing time for robbery. The fourth prisoner, an Algerian also convicted of robbery, appeared to be simply tagging along. With the Palestinian as front man, the quartet demanded, as the price for their hostages, a plane that would carry them to any Arab...
...Environmental Protection Agency also got into the act, announcing that it will set air-pollution standards for vinyl chloride. A special EPA task force has found that more than 200 million Ibs. of vc and 50 million Ibs. of PVC are being discharged into the environment during the conversion process. In other words, people who live downwind of factories that make PVC might also unknowingly be getting a whiff of the gas. Two cases of angiosarcoma have in fact been reported in people whose houses were near a PVC plant in Bridgeport, Conn...
...afield the hunt for the dangerous gas will go is hard to predict. Some scientists fear that burning plastic products in dumps or incinerators releases VC into the air. Others even worry that VC might be emitted from auto seat covers in cars that have been parked all day in the sun. Beyond that loom potential dangers from scores of other contaminants in man's everyday products. As more is learned about them, more bans and controls are likely...