Word: virginia
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...ACCIDENTAL RELEASE of poisonous gases from a Union Carbide plant in West Virginia last week, which left 40 unsuspecting people injured, may seem quite removed for most Cantabrigians. And so might a similar industrial disaster in Bhopal, India which killed 2000 and injured 200,000 more last December. In both cases, Union Carbide officials had repeatedly assured local residents that a release of toxic chemicals into their communities was highly unlikely...
What we have here is a failure to communicate. In a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Senator John Warner of Virginia disclosed that although the Army purchased field-communications equipment for itself and the Air Force, the two services might not be able to talk to each other directly under certain circumstances. "I simply can't believe it," said Warner. "Aren't the Army and the Air Force both on the same side...
...missiles, bringing the total to 42. One key backer was Democratic Congressman Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, who told several colleagues that he planned to vote in favor of the MX, though he declined to make his position public. Democratic Congressman Norman Sisisky of Virginia, who moved from opposing the MX to an undecided position, admitted, "Geneva has changed the balance." Some MX detractors said privately that they will postpone their campaign against the many-lived missile until it comes up for its next funding vote well after the atmosphere in Geneva has been established...
...which suspects that the council is out to reduce labor's influence in the party. South Carolina Senator Ernest Hollings calls the group "divisive and harmful." Others suspect that the council is likely to become a vehicle for the 1988 presidential ambitions of some of its founders, notably Virginia Governor Charles Robb and Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt...
...Virginia Commonwealth 81, Marshall...