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...mammoth slick that oozed out of the Exxon Valdez tanker into Alaska's Prince William Sound two years ago may have been tough on otters and seagulls, but it was black gold for the legal profession. The 1989 disaster generated more than 300 lawsuits. Last week the largest was settled barely a month before it was due to go to trial, as Exxon reached an agreement with Alaska and the U.S. The cost: a guilty plea to three criminal charges that the company negligently discharged crude oil into navigable waters and killed migratory wildlife, and fines that may eventually total...
...midst of these developments, on April 12, six U.S. Senators arrived in Iraq on a regionwide fact-finding mission. The group included Republicans Bob Dole of Kansas, Charles Grassley of Iowa, Alan Simpson of Wyoming and Frank Murkowski of Alaska as well as Democrats Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio and James McClure of Idaho. The group was taken to a hotel along the Tigris River, ushered into a suite and presented to Saddam. They were asked to surrender their tape recorders and cameras...
...Bush alone in such forthright optimism. Senators Daniel Inouye of Hawaii and Ted Stevens of Alaska returned from the gulf in December and said they had been told by military officials that a war with Iraq could be completed in five days. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Saddam's expectation of victory showed he was "living in another world," and predicted his troops would yield within three or four weeks. While few others were daring (or imprudent) enough to offer a precise timetable, many military and civilian officials described the potential conflict as lopsided and brief. British Defense Minister...
...several past recessions, Congress and the states responded to widespread joblessness by allocating extra money to unemployment trusts so they could extend worker benefits for a few additional months. But during the past few years the Federal Government and the states have tightened eligibility for such benefits. Only Alaska and Rhode Island are currently expanding the assistance. And with everything from the gulf war to the savings and loan bailout competing for scarce federal funds, Congress is not eager to press such a move. For the moment, once they exhaust the standard benefits period, the jobless are on their...
...Iraqis may have released up to 120 million gal. by late last week -- almost a dozen times as much as the Exxon Valdez leaked into Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989. And this time any cleanup could be a deadly mission in itself. The spill is "in enemy territory," says Marine Major General Robert Johnston, the U.S. Central Command's chief of staff. "We can't just go in and shut...