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Cleaning up oil spills is still very much a developing science. Such devices as booms to contain spilled oil and vacuum cleaners that suck it off the surface may work fairly well in the quiet waters of harbors or slow-flowing rivers. But the open ocean poses all but insuperable problems. Coast Guardsmen lost $200,000 worth of equipment when stormy seas forced them to abandon attempts to take off the Argo Merchant's cargo. The pounding waves rendered booms useless and stymied the Coast Guard's attempts to set the oil on fire...
...both favorable reviews and a wave of wrath and scorn. As a self-appointed defender of the British royal family. Lord Mountbatten has denounced the authors' conclusions about an aborted British rescue plot. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has stonewalled on the question of whether U.S. archives also contain documents regarding American complicity in a rescue plot. The authors do not claim that their conclusions are complete. But they are continuing to dig-and the new findings, especially in the U.S. archives, may be even more sensational than the intriguing material they have already unearthed. David Tinnin
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL is a different kind of economics book. Its 300 pages contain not a single graph. Published three years ago in London, it is just now gaining recognition on this side of the Atlantic. Economists, foreign students from Southeast Asia and Africa, and readers of periodicals such as the Coevolution Quarterly have passed it from hand to hand. The book seems to enjoy a readership far in excess of the number of copies sold...
...great interstellar clouds also contain another kind of fertilizer. In 1963 a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Lincoln Laboratory used a radio telescope to discover the hydroxyl radical (two-thirds of the water molecule) in space. Since then, more than three dozen molecules have been found floating in the galactic clouds, including those of methane, formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, ethyl alcohol and carbon monoxide...
Cocky Sheik. The instigator of the rupture was Saudi Arabia, whose sands and offshore waters contain by far the world's largest proven oil reserves. Eleven of OPEC's 13 members* voted to raise prices another 10.4% on Jan. 1 and yet a further 5% next July 1. But the Saudis, backed by the United Arab Emirates, announced that they would post only a 5% increase for the whole year. Moreover, Saudi Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani declared that Saudi Arabia would lift its self-imposed production limit of 8.5 million bbl. a day and pump...