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...such counterterror tactics conflict sharply with what one Italian airport official calls the "commercial philosophy" of Western airlines. Says an Interior Ministry official in Rome: "A commercial airport is asked to give tourists a pleasant, welcoming image. Is this consonant with stripping passengers, body checks and shaking out their clothes?" Such inconveniences on the ground may be the price that travelers pay for peace of mind...
...brouhaha escalated in February when Secretary of the Interior Donald Hodel initiated the process for holding a sale, tentatively scheduled for April 1988, of oil and gas leases on up to 229 tracts off Northern California. This could be the first of five sales of California leases. Many Californians fear that more offshore leasing would mean beaches blackened by spills, increased air pollution from diesel-powered pumps, and other health and environmental hazards. Fishermen claim that increased drilling activity would disrupt their $1.25 billion industry and that pollution would harm feeding and spawning grounds. Businessmen dependent on the state...
While some of these concerns may be valid, Interior Department officials argue that as older oil fields elsewhere in the U.S. approach the end of their productive years, new supplies must be developed. The Government estimates that the U.S. will have to find 32 billion bbl. of new oil reserves by 1995 to maintain domestic production at the current level of 9 million bbl. a day, and to keep from becoming more dependent upon imports, which now account for 27% of U.S. consumption. Half of those new supplies are expected to come from offshore wells. Says Hodel: "The federal offshore...
...companies have a more immediate incentive to pursue those offshore tracts. Since lease rates rise and fall with oil prices, the Interior Department sale is expected to offer some tempting bargains. Five years ago, for instance, when oil prices were riding high, the average price paid for tracts in the Santa Maria Basin was $6,387.82 per acre. But if petroleum prices stay at their current depressed levels, the new oil leases could go for much less...
...have a launched a search around Athens and other cities and also put out a signal to trace this person through Interpol," one police source said. Earlier yesterday in Rome, Italian Interior Minister Oscar Luigi Scalfaro said, "It is certain that a suspect person, who is on file as a terrorist, got on in Cairo and got off in Athens, occupying in the airplane the exact seat where the explosion occurred...