Word: fish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Little long-term damage seems to have resulted from the Torrey Canyon disaster; indeed, the most serious effects on marine organisms have been blamed not on the oil but on the detergents used to disperse it. Spills closer to shore can have much more dramatic effects. Large numbers of fish, shellfish, crustaceans and marine worms were killed almost immediately when a barge capsized and spilled over 200,000 gal. of oil into Buzzards Bay, off Falmouth, Mass., in 1969. Eighteen months later, scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution reported that the oil was still spreading along the bottom...
...Katsuki '80, a native of Japan, had more unusual cravings. She said she misses dishes such as raw fish and octopus tentacles and complains that the rice is not sticky enough here...
...that coach Dave Fish lugged his 35mm and telephoto out to the Longwood tennis tournament to catch some shots of idol Ken Rosewall last August, but was driven away by a horde of swarming gnats...
...Rotten Fish. Vladimir Prison's 1,300 inmates are allowed into tiny courtyards, about the size of the cells, for one hour of fresh air each day. Bukovsky belonged to the "black" category of political prisoners, so named because of their somber prison garb. Contact with other prisoners was prohibited. "We had lots of ways to communicate, though," said Bukovsky. One way was through a few sympathetic guards who passed on the cheering news of the protest campaign being carried on for Bukovsky in the West. The prison grapevine quickly carried the news of Bukovsky's dramatic month...
...reform will hardly satisfy Southerners victimized by a draconian plan to resettle 4 million city dwellers in "new economic zones" in the Mekong Delta. According to a new five-year plan, Southerners from the cities will be recruited to reclaim 1 million hectares of rice land and to increase fish and lumber production...