Fatal leak at Sequoyah plant as tank overfill releases gas
In Webbers Falls Oklahoma a cylinder at Sequoyah Fuels Corp ruptured after being overloaded with uranium hexafluoride. The 29,500 pound fill caused seven tons of gas to escape, killing one worker and sending more than 100 others to hospitals for acid exposure. Interstate 40 was closed two hours. 26 hospitalized overnight, eight in stable condition.
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Webbers Falls
Okla
Interstate 40
Dick Bangart
Division of
Radiation Safety and Safeguards
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRC
Muskogee
Bangart
Bill Kassinger
Sequoyah Fuels Corp
NASA targets a banner space year with Hubble and probes
In 1986 NASA aims for a landmark season with the Hubble Space Telescope as its centerpiece a 1.2 billion instrument planned for summer orbit that could peer back 12 billion years. Voyager 2 will study Uranus and Neptune, while Ulysses and Galileo launches target the sun and Jupiter with Atlas Centaur rockets, marking a historic space program push.
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Sun
Jupiter
Jesse Moore
Voyager 2
Saturn
Uranus
Burton Edelson
NASA
Solar
Voyager
Neptune
Kennedy Space Center
European Space Agency
Earth
Ter
Galileo
Moore
Hubble Space Telescope
Dalkon Shield claim deadline reaches four months
The A H Robins Co under court supervision launches a 91 nation ad push to inform 4.5 million women they must file notices by April 30 or lose rights to sue. Campaign targets U S and overseas users from 1971 to 1974 with ads in major papers and TV spots.
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Washington
A.H. Robins Co
Richmond
United States
Food and Drug Administration
Robins
Robert R. Merhige
Merhige
Former tire designer uses expertise to fight crime
Pete McDonald, a 55 year old retiree from Firestone, opens Tire Footprint Identification to apply tire forensics in crime work. He trains police to recognize tire tracks, photograph and cast footprints, and has aided about a dozen cases including a Canadian murder investigation with bloody track evidence.
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Hudson, Ohio
Pete McDonald
McDonald
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co
Akron
Cedar Rapids Gazette details and subscription rates
The Gazette Company established 1883 publishes daily and Sunday at 500 Third Avenue SE Cedar Rapids Iowa. Subscriptions by carrier 2.25 weekly. by mail Morning Editions and Sunday seven issues 10.40 for 4 weeks or 110.00 for 52 weeks. No mail subscriptions in Gazette carrier areas. Postmaster address and AP republication rights noted.
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Cedar Rapids
The
Gazette Company
Third Avenue SE
Iowa
U.S
Associated Press
AP News
P.O. Box
Therapeutic praise for illegal ecstasy sparks debate
In Cambridge, a Harvard trained therapist describes ecstasy as non hallucinogenic and therapeutic for fear and anxiety. The drug MDMA was banned as Schedule 1 on July 1 sparking DEA arrests in Dallas area and seizures in Florida and Texas.
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Cambridge
Mass
George
Federal Drug Enforcement Administration
DEA
Dallas
Florida
Texas
John Lawn
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Dalkon Shield
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U.S. News & World Report
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the Star
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