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...gash in the hull of a supertanker off the northwest African coast, igniting a fire that forces the crew to abandon ship. For nearly two weeks, the leaking, foundering vessel is left to drift toward the rich fishing grounds and unspoiled beaches of Morocco. Some 19 million gal. of crude oil ooze into the sea, nearly twice the amount disgorged by the Exxon Valdez in Alaska last March. A replay of grim images -- gooey, blackened shorelines and oil-soaked animal corpses -- appears inevitable...
...miles off the Moroccan coast. Though the spill from the Iranian supertanker Khark 5 is the 16th largest in history, its eventual impact on the environment and Morocco's economy may be relatively mild. But until the oil is completely dispersed, changes in the weather may yet push the crude onto the shore. That possibility was keeping Moroccans on edge. "We are at the mercy of the winds," said Abdelkader Benothman, police chief of coastal Oualidia...
While the great cold stimulated heating demand, there were significant crimps in supply. U.S. production was severely impaired when a Dec. 24 explosion damaged the second largest refinery in the country, an Exxon plant in Baton Rouge, La., that normally processes 455,000 bbl. of crude a day. The accident, probably caused by a spark that ignited hydrocarbons released from a pipe, killed two workers and injured seven others. Company officials announced that the facility will partly reopen this week. Other installations also suffered shutdowns: Shell Oil closed two gasoline refineries in Texas and Louisiana and curtailed operations...
...single incident did more to raise that consciousness than the Exxon Valdez disaster, which last March disgorged nearly 262,000 bbl. of crude oil into the pristine waters of Alaska's Prince William Sound. The images of dead birds and sea otters and miles of tar-smeared beaches graphically illustrated mankind's capacity to foul its environment. Coming in the wake of 1988, with its devastating droughts, mega-forest fires and record high temperatures, the Valdez spill convinced all but the most skeptical observers that humanity was courting ecological disaster...
...THIS crude effort to discredit Rawlsian justice is only laughable. More worrisome is the fact that Ec 10 purports to present Rawls' view without mentioning that it has conveniently omitted important parts of the argument. By using only a choice few of Rawls' basic suppositions, Ec 10 arrives at policy choices that Rawls and most other thinking people would...