Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the White House continues to urge Americans to conserve energy by driving at 55 m.p.h. and turning off the air conditioning, a severe oil glut is building west of the Rockies. At times, as many as 20 bulging tankers have been backed up in California's Long Beach harbor. Nearly half a million barrels of Alaskan crude, which oilmen had originally figured would go to the West Coast, are rerouted daily through the Panama Canal to the Gulf or East Coast ports at additional costs of more than $1 million. And although independent California oilmen are protesting...
...much more support for building pipelines to link West Coast oil terminals with refineries in the Midwest. Standard Oil Co. of Ohio has the most promising plan. It wants to buy 1,026 miles of underused natural gas pipelines and construct 230 miles of new line to link Long Beach with Midland, Texas; from that point, the oil would head east through existing pipelines. The $500 million project could carry half a million barrels a day and would cost considerably less than tanker transport. The Government has strongly supported the idea for four years, but the project has bogged down...
...raises (a seaman E-3 makes $460 monthly in base pay, compared with $99 in 1958) mean that most sailors can afford apartments in San Diego. Petty Officer Third Class Anthony Moseby, 23, for one, can. This means that each weekday morning he is up near dawn in his beach apartment, dons his jeans, sweater and tennis shoes and drives to the base. Aboard his ship, at the bunk assigned to him, he changes into regulation dungarees and goes to work on the computers in the ship's data-processing center...
...perhaps would demand a lengthy explanation before following the orders. Complains Master Chief Petty Officer Charles Chambers in San Diego: "You can't tell a kid to square away his uniform any longer. In my day, you were controlled around the clock. Today they are all at the beach." Says Master Chief Petty Officer Kenneth Henry: "We can't even pull their liberty cards as punishment...
...teen-age girl is raped in the shower of a detention home by four other female inmates wielding a "plumber's helper." A nine-year-old girl is raped with a beer bottle by four youngsters on a San Francisco beach. The first rape is pure fiction, a scene from NBC'S 1974 two-hour made-for-TV movie Born Innocent. The second is a grotesque real-life replay of the TV scene, performed by three girls, 11, 14 and 15, with a boy, 15, standing watch. According to a police investigator, one of the assailants admitted having...