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Miraculously, no one was killed by the fire, but it caused major disruption. The accident occurred near the heart of Houston's refining and petrochemical district, the nexus of the U.S. pipeline network. The breach sent fuel prices soaring in the futures markets, interrupted supplies throughout Northeastern states (the pipe runs as far north as Linden, New Jersey) and forced the Houston ship channel to close down for several days. On Friday two other pipelines began leaking oil that seeped into Galveston...
...then to dismantle" its nuclear-bombmaking capability. That agreement is not ideal. Essentially the U.S. and its allies won from North Korea a commitment to stop violating the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and replace old nuclear-power plants that produce weapons-grade plutonium in exchange for a big payoff: free fuel oil and $4 billion (mostly put up by South Korea and Japan) to build safer light-water reactors that yield a type of plutonium more difficult to fashion into atom bombs. Hans Blix, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, complained about a "long and complex, difficult road...
...that question now would have been a deal breaker. The agreement is smarter still because if Clinton had managed to induce the North to abide only by the terms of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Pyongyang could continue to reprocess plutonium so long as it promised not to use the fuel to build weapons. "But that assumes the International Atomic Energy Agency could guarantee that ((the North Koreans)) wouldn't use the stuff to make bombs, and the agency has proved poor at that in the past," says Robert Manning, a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, a Washington think...
After a two-year federal investigation of 4.5 million pickup trucks, Transportation Secretary Federico Pena accused General Motors of knowingly manufacturing defective trucks with exposed fuel tanks that can explode and burn in side-impact crashes. The Department of Transportation has scheduled a public hearing in December to decide whether the nation's No. 1 automaker should recall its line of pickups built between 1973 and 1987. In a 1988 redesign, GM moved the fuel tanks inside the trucks' protective body frames...
...Bosnian army claimed today that the U.N.'s French peacekeepers started a 45-minute gun battle with Muslim soldiers Monday, adding further fuel to efforts by eight political parties there seeking the dismissal of the commander of the forces. No casualties were reported in the exchange, which took place in a DMZ near Sarajevo. The Bosnians claim that Lt. Gen. Sir Michael Rose is pro-Serb, although he denies both charges. The battle is the latest development in the war, which has claimed 200,000 lives since it began in April 1992.The Muslims are probably wrong about Rose, says TIME...