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...country's 7 million residents could have explained, the mathematics of the embargo are devastatingly simple. Gas that sells for $2 per gal. on the Dominican side of the border commands $7 on the Haitian side. Those numbers have fueled flourishing cross-border smuggling ever since the trade ban was placed on Haiti last October in hopes of forcing the defiant military to allow President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to return. Last week President Clinton's new envoy to Haiti, William Gray III, won a promise from the Dominican Republic's aging President Joaquin Balaguer to seal the border. But with...
Testifying in an Anchorage courtroom as part of a civil lawsuit against the Exxon Corp., Joseph Hazelwood, captain of the Exxon Valdez, admitted he was less than candid with a Coast Guard investigator immediately after his ship ran aground in 1989 and spilled 11 million gal. of oil. Hazelwood testified that instead of just one beer, he had had three vodka drinks before leaving port, and that Exxon had known about his drinking problem...
...dozens of attorneys, paralegals, secretaries, biologists, economists and officials of the Exxon Corp. They are settling in for the summer to write the final chapter in the story of the nation's largest oil spill, which began in 1989 when the Exxon Valdez spilled more than 11 million gal. of inky black crude into the pristine Prince William Sound...
...abundant herring harvests the first few springs after the accident; they say there is no link between the five-year-old spill and what is happening now. Not surprisingly, this is not a popular position in Cordova. The culprit, most fishermen readily agree, is the 11 million gal. of oil. "It's a gut-level thing," says Baker. "Yes, there is an effect out there ((from the spill)). The thing that is so telling is that everywhere else in Alaska, there are major runs on fish this spring." And so to court. The fishermen have pinned their hopes for economic...
...dining space, according to Barak Ben-Gal '96, secretary to Hillel's coordinating council, "allows us to celebrate Friday night Shabbat together...