Carbide plant leak prompts countywide sheltering in place
Officials traced a leak from a storage tank gasket at the Carbide plant causing a cloud of aldiearb to drift over nearby homes. About 300 residents sought treatment as city and county agencies coordinated alerts while emergency broadcasts urged people to stay indoors and seal windows. Six workers sustained eye injuries but were expected to recover. most residents faced mild to moderate irritant gas exposure.
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Carbide
Donna Willis
County Office of Emergency Services
Henderson
Charleston
Mike Roark
Vicky Terry
WCHS
Mike Wilson
Institute
Barbara Cyrus
David Seidler
Charleston Area Medical Center
Lobbying costs rise as groups push access in 1985
Washington AP reports Capitol Hill lobbyists spent 10.2 million in the first quarter of 1985, a 20 percent rise from the start of the 8th Congress. If the pace continued through 1986, outlays could reach 102 million, versus 85.3 million the prior two years. The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare led with 781,883, with Common Cause at 583,967 and Gun Owners of America at 423,409 following.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Congress
House
Senate
National Committee To
Bill Lessard
White House
Lessard
Gun Owners of America Inc
Low spending priority for criminal justice in 1982
The Justice Department said a 1982 study shows police protection received about 144 cents per dollar of combined federal, state, and local spending. Total criminal and civil justice spending was 2.8 cents per dollar, with police at 1.5 cents, prisons 0.7, and courts 0.6.
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Washington
Justice Department
Department
Bureau of Criminal Justice Statistics
America
Steven R. Schlesinger
BJS
Schlesinger
Census Bureau
Bureau
Ios
Rear seating safety debated after major jet crashes
Dallas Morning News reports based on NTSB data that most survivors since 1970 sat rearward, with nine of sixteen crashes showing rear survivors. The Delta crash example and a Dallas Lavi jet disaster are cited, while a Mojave crash test with mannequins questions rear-seat safety.
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Dallas
National Transportation Safety Board
Dallas Morning News
Delta Air Lines
NISE
Dallas-Fort Worth International
NTSB
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Daystrom
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Thresher’s
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Breuer
Hampton
Ashley
East Street
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