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Eden retired to his Wiltshire estate with Clarissa, his second wife (he had in 1950 divorced his first wife, Beatrice, by whom he had two children: Simon, who was killed in World War II, and Nicholas, who is now a merchant banker). He raised purebred Herefords, dabbled with watercolors, reread Proust and Joyce and wrote his circumspect but stylish memoirs; the last of four volumes, titled Another World: 1897-1917, was published last spring. Through a television series in which he recounted his life and career, Eden became a new presence to a generation of Britons who knew none...
...spilling about 300 gal. of oil into the waters of the harbor. That minispill was certainly the least of the tanker accidents that have occurred in U.S. waters since mid-December, but no one could say it would be the last. On Dec. 15, when the Liberian-registered Argo Merchant went aground off Nantucket Island, Mass., and dumped 7.3 million gal. of oil into the sea, no fewer than ten tanker accidents had hit the headlines, including five that involved major losses...
...most modern tankers. The result is that much of the U.S.'s oil imports are supplied by a motley collection of smaller tankers that are often old, ill-equipped and indifferently manned. The U.S.'s daily consumption of foreign oil equals the capacity of 35 Argo Merchant-size tankers. With so much tanker traffic -an average of 30,000 arrivals a year -accidents are inevitable. By the Coast Guard's reckoning, in any given two-year period the U.S. can expect half a dozen serious oil spills and 86 tanker groundings, three-fourths of them...
Rear Admiral William Benkert, chief of the Coast Guard's Office of Merchant Vessel Safety, indignantly denies the environmentalists' charges. "We haven't been sitting on our dead ass," he protests. But someone is. The U.S. has yet to ratify the liability convention adopted by the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization in 1969. Congress has yet to see the Administration's bill carrying out IMCO'S 1973 convention on ocean pollution. Nor was the U.S. successful in pushing for the adoption of rules requiring newly constructed tankers to have double bottoms. Such a construction feature is now mandatory...
...European taxes, wage scales and expensive?hence profit-cutting?regulations on crews and equipment. Liberia, which has no natural harbor, has the world's largest tanker tonnage?with some of its ships American-owned. Such ships and their crews frequently fail to meet adequate safety standards. The Argo Merchant, for example, was involved in 18 "incidents"?including two previous groundings?before the Nantucket disaster. Her captain since June, Georgios Papadopoulos, 43, admitted at a hearing last week that his ship carried no LORAN (long-range navigation) equipment. His gyrocompass, he said, was not being used just prior...