Pentagon warned on waste disposal practices and costs
The Pentagon is not in full compliance with toxic waste laws and EPA rules, with fragmented programs and inadequate training. A top level task force is urged to coordinate waste management, potentially saving hundreds of millions. GAO found contractors often overcharge and storage focus overshadows disposal.
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Pentagon
Environmental Protection Agency
U.S
Congressional General Accounting Office
GAO
Cyanide deaths re-examined as FDA recalls medicines
The FDA rechecked 137000 King County cyanide capsules and linked confirmed cyanide to two homicide victims Sue Snow and Bruce Nickell. Tests on a second bottle and a tampered store bottle indicated a foreign substance. Medical Examiner Corinne Fligner will reexamine deaths dating back to January and focus on south King County.
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Sue Hutchcroft
Food and Drug Administration
Seattle
King County
Sue Snow
Bruce Nickell
Jim Davis
FDA
Nickell
Kent
FBI Crime Lab
Washington
D.C
Corinne Fligner
South
Tampered Tylenol Tidbit Draws Coralville Warning
A rural Lone Tree couple turned in a Tylenol bottle with punctured cap to Coralville and Johnson County authorities. The bottle and box had been opened and were purchased at an unidentified Coralville store last week. The tablets will be lab tested for tampering.
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Coralville
Johnson County
Gary Hughes
Don Ewart
Community meeting schedule and events posted for June 23
City Hall conference room hosts East Side Summer Day Care Advisory Committee at 4 p.m. followed by Cedar Rapids school board work session at 5 p.m. and regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. Linn-Mar and Walker councils also meet. Arts team workshops and performance at Lisbon High School. Amana VIP Golf Tournament and Cedar Valley Nature Trail walk planned.
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City Hall
East Side
St. Paul’s United Methodist Church
Cedar Rapids School Board
Second Ave
Linn County Building Board of Appeals
Walker City Council
Lisbon High School
Amana
Finkbine Golf Course
Iowa City
Cedar Valley Nature Trail
Boyson Road
Hiawatha
Iowa Rails To Trails
South Africa crisis draws international warning on censorship
In Soweto Winnie Mandela warns of worse times as new laws threaten longer detentions. Archbishop Tutu says Christians face danger under the government. Chester Crocker urges continued sanctions opposition and constructive engagement while predicting eventual negotiations with the ANC and black opponents.
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Soweto
Winnie Mandela
African National Congress
Nelson Mandela
St. Paul’s Anglican Church
Washington
Chester A. Crocker
Crocker
U.S
ABC
David Brinkley
Suburban whites in Johannesburg stay insulated from turmoil
In white Johannesburg suburbs in a calmer scene, residents socialize at Hyde Park Corner amid luxury shoppers and pricey brands. They say the apartheid crisis does not affect them, with security visible elsewhere yet distant from their daily life. The piece notes a stark geographic and social cocoon.
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New York Times
Johannesburg
South Africa
Brian
Jan Smuts Avenue
Hyde Park Corner
Charles Greig Jewelers
Trussardi
Rivonia
Mayday hoax broadcasts tied to Coast Guard threats case
In Camden New Jersey a man pleaded guilty to threatening a Coast Guard radio operator amid dozens of fraudulent May 1985 distress calls. Judge Garrett E Brown will review the sentence after a psychiatric report. Coast Guard records show 1985 distress calls totaled 67 775 with 4 876 hoaxes.
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Camden
N.J
Coast Guard
U.S
Garrett E. Brown
North Carolina
Humenik
Charles Nugent
Matthew Carr
Gloucester City
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