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Since the Exxon Valdez accident, gas prices have increased by an average of 10 percent nationally, while the Pacific Northwest saw surges as high as 25 percent in less than a month, said Marla Rae, executive assistant to Oregon Attorney General Dave Frohnmayer...
Meanwhile, state attorneys general in the Northwest and U.S. Senators from Nebraska called for a federal investigation into the sharp gasoline price increase since the March 24 Exxon Valdez spill...
...filed into the Great Hall for Hu's memorial service behind a wall of 8,000 Chinese troops, the protesters waved their fists and chanted, "Long live freedom!" and "Down with dictatorship!" Some of the leaders seemed to stop momentarily to listen to the shouts. In Xian, to the northwest, the demonstrations turned into a riot as students burned 20 houses and injured some 130 police; 18 protesters were arrested...
...students and a growing hoard of supporters pushed their way through police barriers across half a dozen intersections along the ninemile route from campuses in northwest Beijing to the center of the city...
...Peter Ueberroth's rescue plan must clear some tall obstacles. -- Northwest flies into the combat zone as oilman Marvin Davis pushes an unwelcome...