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Until the grounding of the Exxon Valdez on March 24, the largest U.S. oil company had been cruising along with a good reputation and 1988 profits of $5.3 billion. But now Exxon faces not only a public outcry but also a financial liability that could dent its earnings and preoccupy its managers for years. Some 20 class-action lawsuits have already been filed on behalf of Alaskan fishermen and businesses. The company is even getting something of a cold shoulder on Wall Street, where last week it ran into unexpected trouble selling a $110 million issue of two-year bonds...
...victims were apparently plucked at random from the countryside surrounding Matamoros. They included Kilroy, a premed major who vanished March 14 after a night of spring-break revelry in the town's cantinas. At 2 a.m. he was lured toward a pickup truck by a thin, scar-faced man who offered a ride. Two toughs threw him into the back and sped off. Five blocks away, Kilroy attempted to escape, but was recaptured and driven to the ranch. There he was gagged and blindfolded with heavy gray tape and tossed into the darkened shed...
From the moment his body was found in a Hollywood hotel room in March 1982, the victim of a drug overdose at age 33, John Belushi became the subject of an inevitable barrage of media scavenging. First came the newspaper stories, detailing the cocaine and heroin abuse that led to the Rabelaisian comic's early death. Then a book, Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi, written by Watergate chronicler Bob Woodward. The tell-all tome implicated several of Belushi's Hollywood friends and associates for condoning, or at least ignoring, his self-destructive behavior...
...Reagan Administration's agreement ran into turbulence during two of Bush's National Security Council sessions in mid-March. Outspoken opponents included White House chief of staff John Sununu, a former engineering professor, who argued that the U.S. risked losing the technological edge represented by the plane's so-called source codes, which coordinate its electronic features. The doubters were joined by Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher, who says he wanted to ensure that "this aviation technology, which has taken so many years of blood, sweat, tears and money to develop, did not instantly allow our biggest competitor to catch...
After the session, Koop gently addressed Mapplethorpe's illness, turning to , the artist before saying goodbye: "I hope it goes well for you." Thirty- seven days later, on March 9, Mapplethorpe died at New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston. He was 42. The Koop photograph turned out to be Mapplethorpe's last portrait assignment...