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...with the fierce conditions of climate and geography. To protect the swampy tundra terrain, the companies use offshore drilling techniques. They have developed new strains of grass to grow on disturbed tundra, and they plan to install monitoring devices that would automatically turn off oil flow minutes after a leak is detected. The port of Valdez will have probably the most advanced antipollution system in the world. Problems remain, but University of Alaska Ecologist Vic Fischer says: "The basic environmental questions have been faced, and engineering can solve them...
Radioactive Leaks. Specifically, the committee and its seven co-plaintiffs (including the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and SANE) claim that the blast may trigger "a succession of earthquakes" (fault lines run from Alaska through Southern California), tsunamis or earthquake-produced tidal waves of "unpredictable size and direction," contaminate the surrounding ocean with radioactive materials and leak poisonous debris into the atmosphere...
...simpler explanation for the deaths: a mechanical or structural failure aboard Soyuz. Because the cosmonauts were not in protective pressure suits at the time of the descent, they could have died from any number of causes-excessive heat, carbon dioxide fumes from a small fire, a nitrogen leak from the spacecraft's atmosphere system, or even a rapid drop in cabin pressure. Such theories got support from some unconfirmed reports that all radio transmissions-not only voice but also telemetry signals-stopped at the end of the braking maneuver. In fact, most speculation centered on a failure...
Sometimes one agency of the Government will leak information in order to combat another branch. Last March, Democratic Senator Henry Jackson was apparently given a report by the Defense Department that the Russians were enlarging their intercontinental missile silos. Jackson warned that the Soviets were about to deploy a more advanced offensive missile. Two months later, Senate Republicans leaked a report from the CIA indicating that the Russians were only reinforcing missile sites and not accelerating the arms race...
...issues were momentous, the situation unprecedented. The most massive leak of secret documents in U.S. history had suddenly exposed the sensitive inner processes whereby the Johnson Administration had abruptly escalated the nation's most unpopular?and unsuccessful?war. The Nixon Government, battling stubbornly to withdraw from that war at its own deliberate pace, took the historic step of seeking to suppress articles before publication, and threatened criminal action against the nation's most eminent newspaper...