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Since the death of Mellon Professor K. Onwuka Dike more than five years ago, Harvard has lacked a tenured professor of African studies. Associate Professor of History H. Leroy Vail is the University's only remaining expert on Africa...
...structure was nearly filled to its capacity of 4 million gal., something went wrong. The tank suddenly burst like a balloon, loosing its contents in a matter of seconds. Some 3.8 million gal. of the oil erupted in a 35-ft.-high tidal wave that quickly overflowed the earthen dike meant to contain such spills. In the 7 degrees cold, 860,000 gal. inundated nearby Route 837. The oil then poured through storm sewers into the Monongahela, a once polluted river that over the past ten years has been painstakingly restored to health, and headed for Pittsburgh, 23 miles downstream...
...standards, says Tim Fields, director of the agency's emergency- response division, "the company is doing everything we would do" to clean up the mess. Says Purcell: "As long as they report it and make every effort to clean it up, they're safe." Although the required dike around the tank did not work, it appears to have been of a size approved by the EPA to contain accidental overflows...
...Manhattan who was appointed special prosecutor in May 1986. After the verdict, Seymour, himself a Republican, lashed out at the Reagan Administration for its lack of ethical leadership. Without such a guiding example, he said, the best that special prosecutors can do is "put a thumb in the dike...
Seymour said that "until the attitudes of government leaders change, there is little that prosecutors can do except put a thumb in the dike...