Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel was justly outraged. The recent Gulf of Mexico oil fiasco, during which a cluster of twelve offshore wells owned by Chevron Oil Co. blazed for a month, has caused even greater repercussions than last year's Santa Barbara debacle. Beyond oil, Louisiana's largest industries are shrimp and oysters, and the rich Gulf of Mexico beds may have been irreparably damaged by the spill. Scientific tests conducted at Woods Hole, Mass., last week produced the first solid evidence that oil pollution can disrupt the life cycles of marine creatures...
Less Than Deft. The chief effect of the Chau fiasco was to show that Thieu is less than deft in handling opposition. In recent years, he has turned relatively ineffectual opponents like Truong Dinh Dzu, the runner-up in the 1967 presidential election, and Thich Thien Minh, a leading Buddhist, into near martyrs by arresting and imprisoning them. Now, as a U.S. official in Saigon notes, "he has changed Chau overnight from a political nonentity into an international figure." When Chau gets a new trial to appeal his conviction, probably this week, he can be expected to make the most...
...however, growing dissatisfaction among civic leaders with his performance. The Cleveland Plain Dealer, which had supported Stokes in his campaigns for office, printed an editorial last week signed by Editor-Publisher Thomas Vail. "Time is running out," wrote Vail. "The people of Cleveland will not stand for another fiasco in public safety...
...Commonwealth of Massachusetts takes Harvard Stadium by eminent domain and refuses to lease it to Harvard on the weekends when the Boston Patriots play home games. Harvard, having given tacit support to the principle of eminent domain in the famous Cambridge NASA Center fiasco, is in no position to object. The Harvard Varsity Club, the second largest independent corporation in Massachusetts, lets it be known that unless Harvard provides the football team with a stadium by the fall of 1970, they will move elsewhere...