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...displayed. In Stewartstown, some 50 miles away, a Catholic pub that stayed open was bombed and one man was killed - thereby raising to 234 the number of dead in Ulster since the summer of 1969. Mourners also marked the spots where the victims had fallen and died with flags, crude crosses and rosaries...
Even though three years have passed since crude oil began gushing from a ruptured well under the Santa Barbara Channel, no one yet knows the exact costs of the disaster. As so often happens with social problems in the U.S., the courts have to put a price tag on values that are hard to measure. The latest decision has come from a Santa Barbara court, where Judge Morton L. Barker ruled that the oil companies responsible for the oil spill-Union Oil, Mobil, Texaco and Gulf-should each pay $500 in criminal penalties...
...foreign economic front, Nixon and Connally played a daring and sometimes crude game of economic brinkmanship that at times seemed to threaten the entire fabric of U.S. relations with its friends and trading partners. While no one could foretell the long-range psychological effects and the resentments that might linger, by year's end Nixon and Connally had plainly cleared the way for the grinding task of renegotiating the Western world's trade and monetary system (see THE ECONOMY...
...earth is permanently frozen from a few inches below the surface to a depth of 1,300 ft. Gas lines snake through the settlement resting on half-sections of 55-gal. oil drums; at intersections, the pipe is framed in wood and runs overhead on gateways that look like crude Japanese torii. The impenetrable ground also makes sanitation a problem. Although the U.S. Public Health Service has promised to help with sewers and a water system some time in the future, Barrow residents usually dump solid wastes -encased in the ubiquitous 55-gal. drums-near the Naval...
...bigger and bigger, the number of ports they can enter gets smaller and smaller. There are only about 20 commercial harbors in the world deep enough to serve the Nisseki Maru, a new Japanese behemoth that stretches 1,139 ft. long, carries almost 3,000,000 bbl. of crude oil and draws 89 ft. of water. Such monster tankers -each representing a potentially catastrophic oil spill-pump their cargoes into oil depots at the deep ports. Then smaller vessels take the oil to final destinations along the coast...