Posted on 02/14/2005 7:10:21 PM PST by Selkie
Sounds like a horrible accident, but who knows?
These are some of the project they were working on
Above Top Secret - Aircraft Projects - AIAA Review of Aerospace ...
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http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread35408/pg1
She mainly worked in a lab inside the commission's Totowa water-treatment plant, but her job often took her down to a pair of frigid tunnels in the basement, where she calibrated water-monitoring equipment and collected water specimens from hoses along the wall for testing.
Angara was on one of those errands on a Tuesday morning, Feb. 8, when she disappeared. It wasn't until the next day, after officials drained 9 million gallons of water from huge tanks that run beneath the plant, that she was found.
Authorities believe someone pushed or forced Angara through a 4- by 4-foot access panel in the tunnel floor. It was a 5-foot fall before she hit water 30 feet deep. There was no ladder, no way to jump back up. In the inky blackness of the underground vat, Angara drowned in the 36-degree water, an autopsy showed.
Her body eventually was pulled by suction through a 4-foot pipe into another tank and then into a sump area, 5 feet deeper still.
Avigliano said investigators do not believe Angara committed suicide. Nor do they believe it was an accident, in part because someone replaced the steel access panel separating the tunnel floor from the mammoth tank.
While investigators initially were uncertain about the panel's position, interviews with police officers and firefighters summoned to search for Angara suggest the panel was in place or nearly in place.
There is more behind the homicide designation, but Avigliano said he cannot discuss it. Asked if Angara's body had suffered trauma that might suggest she was murdered, the prosecutor responded: "The cause of death is drowning. Drowning does not give rise to a homicide (designation), so obviously, there was something else."
Something other than the access panel being replaced?
Here's the link to story on Fox from NY Post....
Meanwhile, prosecutors have taken the extraordinary step of pulling the files on the unsolved 1976 murder of a female worker at a Hoffmann-La Roche plant worker in Clifton.
Just like the water-treatment plant in Totowa, the Clifton complex "was an extremely secure facility and they never found out who did it," said Avigliano.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/40049.htm
I don't know, but I think that panel being replaced would be the biggest clue.
Odd that they have opened another case in a different type of secure plant now. See above post.
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>>>pulling the files on the unsolved 1976 murder of a female worker at a Hoffmann-La Roche plant worker in Clifton.
Huh, now this is interesting timing. I wonder if Adams and the 'female' knew each other.....
Roche - Corporate Media News
Basel, 21 May 1999
(snip)
As you will recall, in the spring of 1973 Stanley Adams turned over company documents to the EC Commission while he was still an employee of our vitamins division. In June 1976 the Commission sentenced Roche to pay a fine of 300,000 Accounting Units for granting unlawful loyalty discounts to major vitamins customers. This was equivalent to about 900,000 Swiss francs. An appeal was taken to the European Court of Justice, which ultimately resulted in the fine’s being reduced by one-third, to 200,000 Accounting Units, in February 1979.
It was very important to me to work with the then members of the Executive Committee in initiating the measures needed to ensure that the Roche Group complied — at all times and in every area of operations — with existing laws as well as with our own principles on fair and ethical business conduct, which were adopted as binding in 1985. It is all the more disappointing for Franz Humer and myself to have to inform you today about a case of anticompetitive conduct involving our vitamins division. There is no doubt that we are today under a particular obligation to maintain and strengthen the public’s — and above all our customers’ — trust in Roche through irreproachable business practices as well as through sustained business success.
(snip)
Did you post this link at TM I hope?
No I didn't. :(
Thirty lashes for me.
Can you add it to one of your news posts over there?
I shut it off, opened all the windows, and called the water company.
They matter-of-factly told me there was an "algae bloom" in the Delaware River, and they had to chlorinate the heck out of the water.
That's when I started buying bottled water . . .
What cracks me up is the people who've lived here all their lives think their tap water is normal. In the grocery store they try to talk me out of "wasting" my money on drinking water. When a neon greenish-yellow cloud floated overhead one day, most people just thought it was kewl! One of the local diners is across the street from DuPont. They run train cars full of chlorine back and forth all day in front of the diner. Sometimes the stench is overpowering, but everybody just keeps eating. Another diner has a leak in it's septic system, draining into their tap water. They've had contaminated tap water for years. The locals all know this, and they still eat there.
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