Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Archbishop Coleman Francis Carroll of Miami, 72, powerful, hardline Roman Catholic traditionalist, civil rights warrior and champion of Florida's Cuban refugee community; of heart disease; in Miami Beach. As Florida's highest-ranking Catholic prelate, Carroll combined strong support for racial justice and the welfare of Cuban refugees with vociferous opposition to liberalization of the church. He lobbied vigorously against the repeal of the no-meat-on-Fridays rule and was in the forefront of the successful battle to defeat Dade County's gay rights ordinance in June...
Opponents of the Long Beach plan, including California Governor Jerry Brown, say the pipeline that Sohio wants to use is needed to bring in natural gas from Mexico. They also protest that the use of Long Beach as a transfer terminal for Alaskan oil would add to the already bad air and water pollution problem in the Los Angeles basin. Although no refining will take place in the area, critics of the Long Beach plan say that just shipping the oil through there will add to pollution: tankers continually emit fumes, sometimes spill oil, and will inevitably have accidents...
Citing Sohio's own figures, the California Air Resources Board says that even under "best case" circumstances, the Long Beach operation would add to the air about 1,140 lbs. of emissions per day-the equivalent of the exhaust from 38,000 cars. The "most probable" forecast is even darker: nearly 81,000 lbs. of added emissions per day, equivalent to the exhaust from 2.7 million autos...