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That will not be easy. Although no major offshore-well blowouts have occurred in U.S. waters since the Santa Barbara accident, and the technology for plugging an out-of-control well has vastly improved, environmentalists are worried that chronic, low-level oil pollution could be devastating to such rich fishing grounds as the Georges Bank off New England. They also fear that drill rigs off Alaska, a site of suspected major reserves, could be wrecked by errant ice floes, spreading crude oil over the fragile Arctic terrain...
...facilities should handle all low-level radioactive, hazardous, chemical and infectious waste generated by university labs and hospitals, the task force recommended in a report released Friday...
Spectre, proved highly effective with their shooting rate of up to 6,000 rounds a minute. They knocked out Cuban mortar and gun positions that threatened the invading troops early in the action. But they also suffered casualties, some in heroic low-level flights to draw ground fire, thereby exposing the enemy position to attacks from other U.S. choppers. The Pentagon said five helicopters had been shot down. One transport helicopter, hit by ground fire as it brought troops into the Point Salines airstrip, struck another chopper in its uncontrolled descent. Both crashed...
...Justice Department spokesman responded by asserting that Honegger was merely "a low-level Munchkin." White House Press Spokesman Larry Speakes attempted an ungallant rabbit punch of his own. He told reporters: "The last time I saw her she was the Easter Bunny at the White House Easter egg roll...
...late last week ten suspects had been arrested, including a low-level Guatemalan diplomat, eight people from the Washington area and two Miami residents. Dora Ileana Caceres, 32, third secretary in the Guatemalan mission to the Organization of American States, her husband Juan, a businessman, and her nephew were arrested after her diplomatic status was rescinded by Guatemala following consultations with the State Department...