Word: fueled
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International relief efforts have snarled while thousands of Rwandan refugees continue to die. Since the weekend, U.S. planes carrying relief supplies have circled for hours over the tiny, clogged airport at Goma, Zaire, then landed in Kenya or Uganda because they were running low on fuel. (Zairian authorities charged a fee of $2,000 from each U.S. aircraft that did land.) Many aid workers are blaming the foul-ups on French forces who have run the airport since mid-June. U.N. officials, meanwhile, suspended other American flights because they had received more aid than they could distribute amid a shortage...
...path was cleared by three promises from the North Koreans. In a letter to Washington they pledged they would not extract the plutonium -- enough for four or five atom bombs -- from the 8,000 fuel rods they removed from their nuclear reactor at Yongbyon earlier this month. They will not reload the 5-MW reactor with new fuel rods. And they will allow international inspectors to remain on duty to verify those promises. "This does not solve the problem," Clinton said, "but it certainly gives us the basis for seeking a solution." To pursue it, the two sides will...
...told Carter he would stick to his freeze as long as the U.S. was making "a good-faith effort" to work out a settlement. If last week's letter from Pyongyang contained any more specific time limit, it was not announced. But since the fuel rods are too radioactive to be processed for several weeks anyway, the two sides have a window of opportunity to determine how good the good faith is and to decide whether their resumed diplomacy promises to produce a settlement...
...address the issue that produced the crisis in the first place: North Korea's refusal to let inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency do their job. Even now the Koreans are portraying as a concession their willingness to let two inspectors keep watch on the fuel rods lying in water- filled pools. The battle over full inspections has been swept, along with other economic and diplomatic questions, into the new round of talks...
...emits the same amount of hydrocarbons in one hour as does a new car driven 340 miles. A chain saw operated for two hours produces hydrocarbons equivalent to those emitted by a new car driven 3,000 miles. Furthermore, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 17 million gal. of fuel are spilled each year just refueling such equipment -- more than the amount spilled by the Exxon Valdez in the Gulf of Alaska...