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...Alliance has proposed a short-term "ecumenical government" made up of public figures who are acceptable to all sides. Such a transition team would be assigned to set the cleanup in motion and then take the country into new elections. As Papandreou's health deteriorated last week, many in Athens believed it might be the one way out of the labyrinth...
...stockholder, Ed Rothschild, president of the Citizen-Labor Energy Coalition, called on Rawl to resign. "The answer is no," came the chairman's quick reply. He also rebuffed several shareholders who suggested that he donate some of his own money -- his salary in 1988 was $1.4 million -- to the cleanup effort...
...friend John Chafee, the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, says, "That was unfortunate, a missed opportunity." Despite the lack of personal involvement, however, Bush has sent ships and personnel from the Navy, Army, Air Force and Coast Guard to help in the cleanup operation...
...number of talk hosts initiated letter-writing and phone-in campaigns, and kept in touch with each other to exchange information and plot tactics. The radio campaign was widely credited with helping scuttle the pay increase. Now several of these hosts are leading the protests against Exxon's slow cleanup of the Alaska oil spill, collecting cut-up Exxon credit cards and advocating a company boycott. More such crusades may be in the offing. Williams, of Boston's WRKO-AM, has invited his fellow talk hosts to a convention in June. The aim, he says, is to "see what...
ENVIRONMENT: Mobilizing for Alaska's cleanup...