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...birds lay dead or dying. The Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey were threatened, as were the sands around the spectacular monastery at Mont-St.-Michel. Driven by gale winds, the oil may despoil more than 160 kilometers (100 miles) of France's ruggedly beautiful Brittany coast, and imperil the Normandy beaches farther to the east as well. By any measure, the spill was the biggest of all time and perhaps the most devastating. At week's end it appeared that most of the Amoco Cadiz's 220,000 tons of crude oil-twice the amount released...
...forbade a number of then common union actions: interunion jurisdictional strikes, and strikes to enforce featherbedding, secondary boycotts and the closed shop. Its key section provides a system to stop strikes that could "imperil the national health and safety." If a President believes a strike poses such a threat, he can appoint a board to investigate the dispute. After he receives the board's report, the Government can seek an injunction from a federal judge forbidding the continuation or start of a strike for 80 days...
...Prices for some of their most important crops are sliding, and their incomes are falling. Now farmers want Government help in the form of higher subsidies, especially for wheat and corn-to the embarrassment of President Carter, who has threatened to veto any farm bill so generous as to imperil his goal of balancing the budget...
...banking scene. A growing number of monetary experts, bank regulators and economists are concerned about the ability of some less developed countries (LDCS) to pay off. They worry that a series of defaults could severely jolt the banking systems of the U.S. and other major lending countries-and perhaps imperil the Western economies...
...will be held to a minimum. But shifting winds could still bring the oil ashore, fouling beaches and causing massive ecological damage. The spill has already driven hundreds of sea birds ashore, bedraggled and helpless. The oil could also threaten humpback whales, which migrate through the affected area, and imperil the already endangered gray seals that winter off Nantucket. But of greatest concern is the threat to the Massachusetts fishing industry, which employs some 30,000 men and has been slowly coming back after a long period of economic depression. "We fear damage will be long-lasting and pervasive," said...