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Sixty tons of firewood and 140 gal. of gasoline were needed to get the great bonfire going. Nothing less would reduce to ashes the 2,400 elephant tusks -- twelve tons of nonflammable ivory in all -- that Kenyan wildlife officials had confiscated from poachers in the past four years...
...pricing policy got off to a chaotic start. While the plan calls for prices to be rolled back to July 3 levels, prices in many stores kept on rising. The announced end of government subsidies for gasoline pushed prices up 670%, to the equivalent of $1.60 per gal. In anticipation of a 350% rise in subway and train fares, commuters flocked to stations to stock up on tokens...
...neighbors in Huntington Bay, N.Y. Instead, his head sagging, he hurries back indoors to the lonely anguish that has engulfed his life since the early morning of March 24, when his tanker, the Exxon Valdez, struck a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound and leaked 11 million gal. of crude oil into the pristine waters...
...Delaware River, Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay and the Houston Ship Channel. Crews were deploying rakes, hand-held skimmers, oversize absorbent pads and "supersucker" vacuums to scoop up the oil spilled in the accidents. While all the slicks were much smaller than the 10.5 million-gal. spill of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska last March, the timing of the latest mishaps, which all ! occurred within a twelve-hour period on June 23 and 24, had a powerful effect. "The political impact of these three spills will be much, much greater than their environmental impact," said Richard Golob, editor of Golob...
...Uruguayan tanker Presidente Rivera, en route to Marcus Hook, Pa., was loaded with 28 million gal. of medium-heavy oil when it ran aground in the Delaware. While the spill was conspicuous, the Coast Guard's marine-safety office in Philadelphia moved quickly. Cleanup crews surrounded it with booms and began pumping the remaining oil in the ship's tanks into barges in order to limit the damage. The fast response was heartening. But the U.S. really needs a way of preventing more spills...