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...fragile estuarine systems can be overtaxed in any number of ways. Dredging can stir up the bottom, throwing pollutants back into circulation. The U.S. Navy plans to build a port in Puget Sound for the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Nimitz and twelve other ships; the project will require displacement of more than 1 million cu. yds. of sediment, with unknown ecological consequences. Similarly, natural events such as hurricanes can bestir pollutants from the sediment. The estuarine environment also changes when the balance of freshwater and salt water is disturbed. Upstream dams, for example, diminish the flow of freshwater into estuaries...
...chief of the Soviet military machine will be rubbernecking all over the U.S. next week, but hardly as a typical sightseer. Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev will be treated to a look at some of the Pentagon's crown jewels, including the newly commissioned nuclear aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt and a B-1 bomber...
...airline suspended cargo flights to the U.S. The move followed the seizure of 422 lbs. of cocaine on a flight from Bogota to Miami. The U.S. Customs Service fined the airline $6.8 million. Since 1986, 5,000 lbs. of cocaine have been found on 14 Avianca flights, and the carrier felt it had to cancel its cargo service...
...market. I don't know how the poor manage." Prices of staples like butter and eggs are rising as much as 15% a week, she reports, if they are available at all. Civil service pay is three to four months in arrears. For a while, Iran Air, the national carrier, accepted only U.S. dollars in payment for tickets because Tehran needed the scarce hard currency...
What's black and white and flies all over? Shamu One, the killer whaleplane, which, beneath a $125,000 paint job, is actually a new Boeing 737-300. Dallas- based Southwest Airlines, in an effort to draw attention to its role as the official carrier of San Antonio's Sea World, decorated the jet to look like one of the theme park's famous cetaceans. After a promotional tour, Shamu One begins regular service for Southwest this week. For passengers, no doubt, it offers a much more comfortable ride inside a whale than Jonah...