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Severe gasoline shortages compound the effects of the power cuts. Last year the Soviet Union signaled its displeasure with Sandinista waste and inefficiency by reducing oil deliveries. By Christmas, motorists were camping overnight in mile-long queues for the chance to buy 5 gal. of gasoline. Angry customers overpowered the attendants at some Managua service stations and helped themselves to the fuel...
...grant used for cranberry research as an example of fiscal waste. Only days later, Ocean Spray, the Massachusetts-based cooperative, became the first company to be charged with a felony under the recently strengthened Clean Water Act. The company has allegedly been dumping as much as 200,000 gal. per day of insufficiently treated wastewater filled with cranberry juice, berry skins and other pollutants into the town's sewers and the Nemasket River from its plant in Middleborough, Mass. Town officials believe that the acidic effluent has killed the bacteria used to process the town's sewage at its treatment...
When the supertanker Amoco Cadiz foundered in 1978, spewing 68 million gal. of crude oil over the beaches of Brittany, it created the worst petroleum spill ever to hit land. It also launched one of the world's stickiest legal battles. The French government and a host of other plaintiffs claimed $1.6 billion in damages...
Then, as the 48-ft.-high structure was nearly filled to its capacity of 4 million gal., something went wrong. The tank suddenly burst like a balloon, loosing its contents in a matter of seconds. Some 3.8 million gal. of the oil erupted in a 35-ft.-high tidal wave that quickly overflowed the earthen dike meant to contain such spills. In the 7 degrees cold, 860,000 gal. inundated nearby Route 837. The oil then poured through storm sewers into the Monongahela, a once polluted river that over the past ten years has been painstakingly restored to health...
Five booms were deployed to trap what oil remained on the surface, but the fast-moving river current simply forced the oil under and past them. In addition, the Monongahela's steep banks made much of the river inaccessible. The result: cleanup crews have recovered only 100,000 gal. of fuel -- and that is all they are likely to get. Communities downstream still face 760,000 gal. snaking their way along. By the end of next week the contamination should reach Cincinnati. But as it moves, the oil also becomes diluted; when it hits the Mississippi, perhaps by early March...