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...This is a mini-Alaska," declared New York Attorney General Robert Abrams, referring to last year's 11 million-gal. spill from the Exxon Valdez...
...environment and reimbursement for the governments' cost of helping in the cleanup. Exxon's environmental bills are mounting. The company has spent more than $1 billion in its efforts to clean up the Valdez spill, and is being sued for billions of dollars more by the state of Alaska, the fishing industry and other aggrieved parties...
...Administration officials are said to be opposed to the minerals convention, and Senator Gore claims he has the votes to prevent its ratification in the Senate. Observes Gore: "The whole theory of protecting Antarctica with mining that is carefully circumscribed by safety procedures is the approach that failed in Alaska's Prince William Sound. We shouldn't make the same mistake again...
...forces the crew to abandon ship. For nearly two weeks, the leaking, foundering vessel is left to drift toward the rich fishing grounds and unspoiled beaches of Morocco. Some 19 million gal. of crude oil ooze into the sea, nearly twice the amount disgorged by the Exxon Valdez in Alaska last March. A replay of grim images -- gooey, blackened shorelines and oil-soaked animal corpses -- appears inevitable...
...economic and moral reconstruction. -- Violence in the south and separatism in the north make nationalism one of Moscow's most pressing problems. -- An Iranian tanker spills nearly twice as much oil as the Exxon Valdez, but the immediate impact on the environment is less dire than that of the Alaska mishap...