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Article: Napalm recycling veers off case.(politicians turn back CA train on the way IN)(U.S. News In Brief)(Brief Article)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- April 27, 1998
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For the Pentagon, the Vietnam quagmire continues. The Navy has been stuck with 3.3 million gallons of napalm left over from the war, but plans to start recycling the mixture of chemicals and gasoline went off track last week. Indiana-based Pollution Control Industries pulled out of a contract worth about $2 million to convert the napalm into fuel after protests by congressmen from Illinois and Indiana.
The lawmakers worried that shipping the napalm from a California storage facility could be hazardous to ...