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...past year or so, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and other Soviet officials have hinted at flexibility about permitting some sort of "cooperative measures," perhaps including very limited on-site inspection, in future agreements. But it is virtually inconceivable that the Kremlin would grant the U.S. a carte blanche search warrant to inspect not just launch sites but perhaps storage areas and even production facilities...
Ordinarily such leaks are repaired within weeks. Iran says that it sent experts to inspect the damage, but that they were bombarded by the Iraqis in air attacks. On March 2, Iraq announced that any ships that came near the damaged platforms would be treated as military targets. Iranian officials say they had offered Texan Red Adair, the world's best-known oil troubleshooter, $1 million to supervise a repair effort, but that he refused to work under war-time conditions. The immense slick developed, says a Western diplomat in Bahrain, because "no one will go out there...
...legions of Mary Rose salvagers to plan last week's dramatic lift. The salvage attempt had the blessing of Prince Charles, who in 1975 became president of the Mary Rose Trust, a charity dedicated to saving the vessel. The 21st Prince of Wales had made ten dives to inspect the ship in its cold, muddy resting place, an experience he described as similar to "swimming about in lentil soup...
...companies have taken care to see that once a section of pipeline is completed and buried, typically to a minimum depth of 42 in., the surface is reseeded and restored for use as range or cropland the following season. Maintenance teams will be permanently based along the lines to inspect them periodically and guard against soil erosion by practicing terracing and other soil-conservation techniques. Says Robert Landers, a construction supervisor on the Trailblazer project: "We bury and hide our pipe with about the same care the Egyptians took in burying their pharaohs." Now the only thing the pipeline companies...
That baiter of British snobbery, George Bernard Shaw, once wrote, "An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable." Last week Prince Philip, that imperturbable aristocrat, was certainly uncomfortable. In the U.S. to inspect equestrian sites for the 1984 Olympics and to address the Los Angeles World Affairs Council about the International Wildlife Fund, he was invited to a soirée at the posh California Club. But the establishment, it transpired, prohibits women and has no black members. Philip's host, Mayor Thomas Bradley, refused to attend. Suddenly the club seemed rather too exclusive even...