Dream of college gains turns to radium nightmare in Ottawa
In 1923 Ottawa Illinois teen Peg Looney joins Radium Dial Co painters who lick brushes to point tips on glow in the dark dials. The radium risk later becomes deadly, tests reveal radioactivity, and lawsuits unfold as Superfund cleanup lingers with costs up to 100 million.
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Ill
Margaret Looney
Peg
Radium Dial Co
Marie Curie
Radium Dial
Ottawa
Illinois
Jim Thomas
Ross Mullner
University of Illinois-Chicago
Peg Looney
Looney
Reed
Donahue
Claudia Clark
Central Michigan University
Mount Pleasant, Mich
Argonne National Laboratories
Clark
Darlene Halm
Ottawa Halm
Northern Illinois University
Dekalb
Army intelligence worker charged as Russian spy
Former Pentagon analyst David Sheldon Boone, 46, living in Germany, is charged with espionage for selling top defense secrets to the Soviet Union during 1988 to 1991 for 60 000 dollars. An FBI sting led to his arrest in the United States. The case centers on targets for U S nuclear weapons and intercepts of signals intelligence.
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FBI
Pentagon
National Security Agency
U.S
Soviet Union
David Sheldon Boone
Germany
Russia
Justice Department
Boone
KGB
Tgor
Monica Lewinsky to Move from Watergate Apartment
Monica Lewinsky informed Watergate South residents by hand signed card of her move from her mother’s Watergate apartment. Judy Smith said Lewinsky signed the card herself to inform neighbors. No new relocation location disclosed amid ongoing media attention surrounding her relationship with President Clinton.
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Monica Lewinsky
Watergate
Clinton
Ms. Lewinsky
Watergate South
Judy Smith
Ms. Smith
Lewinsky
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