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Hazelwood is a free man today, at least until his trial, now scheduled to begin in October. He spends much of his time lobster fishing in Huntington Bay with a friend in order to earn money. The work is filthy, but it helps keep Hazelwood's mind off his new role as America's Environmental Enemy No. 1. It will probably be 1990 before Exxon and the National Transportation Safety Board release their reports on the Valdez spill. Meanwhile, late-night comics continue to rip into the skipper, and several songs about a drunken Hazelwood play on Alaskan radio stations...
...Kemp aide insists that the energetic Secretary is "holding up great" under the double strain of the cleanup while seeking to fulfill his own vision of what his department should accomplish. But with a third congressional inquiry of HUD about to begin, Kemp's visions are likely to remain on hold. More Republican political embarrassment also seems inevitable. One of the House subcommittees said it intends to question Carla Hills, now the U.S. Trade Representative and a former Secretary of HUD, about her efforts to help a mortgage company and a developer get HUD contracts...
Another logical stepping-stone is a lunar base, which could be built by 2000, as a testing ground for technologies necessary for a Martian sojourn. In particular, astronauts would experiment with living quarters in which air and water are recycled. Inhabitants of a lunar base would also begin learning how to mine the moon for raw materials, including trapped gases and minerals, that would permit the base to become almost entirely self-sufficient and thus permanent...
...America should never stop seeking distant frontiers," Bush tells us. "We dream of distant shores we've not yet seen... A dream to be realized by future generations must begin with this generation...
...Common Health" program that serves 16,000 disabled children and adults as well as welfare recipients starting new jobs is up and running, he said. Beginning in September, full-time college students will have access to health insurance under the state law. And by this fall, six phased-in programs will begin to provide some 15,000 workers with health insurance through their employers...