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...helicopter, sometimes through attics. In Mississippi, corpses were washed out of cemeteries; in Louisiana, residents had to contend with snakes and swarms of fire ants flushed from their nests. Angry waters severed oil pipelines across the Homochitto River near Meadville, Miss., unleashing an estimated 30,000 bbl. of crude oil into the river. Officials in Louisiana, shoulder to shoulder with 140 inmates of state prisons pressed into service, filled sandbags...
...been the font of their prosperity for decades, but now the wealthy sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf are almost literally swimming in the gooey, black liquid. Since March, three damaged Iranian wells have been spewing some 7,000 bbl. a day of crude into the waters of the gulf, producing an oil slick that is roughly the size of New Jersey and that may rank as the second largest in history.* Much of the menacing sludge rests just below the surface of the gulf's usually crystalline waters, but it is betrayed by a bluish sheen that...
...armies of workmen were ringing the shore with floating plastic booms designed to protect the plants' intake valves. Meanwhile, panicky shoppers in Qatar went on a hoarding spree, pushing the price of bottled mineral water to almost $1 a liter-more than five times the OPEC price for crude oil. Officials from Iran and the seven Arab states that border on the gulf belatedly decided to meet in Kuwait to search for a solution to the problem, but the politics of the 2½-year-old Iran-Iraq war quickly got in the way. At week...
...some respects, those two giants should actually be helped by $29 oil. Reason: both are U.S. partners-along with Mobil and Standard Oil of California-in Aramco, which produces most of Saudi Arabia's oil. All four had been paying the official $34 OPEC price for the Saudi crude, even though cheaper supplies were available elsewhere. Now the March price cut has freed them of that burden. So far, however, analysts have seen few immediate signs of improvement in the overall industry outlook. Says William Randol of First Boston, an investment banking firm: "This year's first-quarter...
Instead they present the "Nam straightforwardly, flatly, through Charlie Company's eyes. The writing is intentionally crude, almost comically earnest. Goldman and Fuller actually want to make us feel like khaki-clad grunts, humping through the jungle in search of gooks...