Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sensing that he might have trouble over oil with Venezuela's Raul Leoni, Johnson jumped into his Cadillac and went calling. He listened for 75 minutes as Leoni complained about how the U.S. program against air pollution might affect exports of Venezuelan oil because much of the oil is low-grade and has a high sulfur content, which is a prime pollutant. Johnson told Leoni that U.S. scientists were experimenting with refining methods that would reduce sulfur content and that any discoveries would be passed on to Venezuela. Back at Beaulieu, Johnson heard Peru's visionary Fernando Belaunde...
...coast, Salvador, Brazil's oldest and fifth largest city (850,000 people) is the quintessence of African Brazil, a mellow, languorous city of rich, luminous colors that smells of dende oil, coconut milk and malagueta pepper and resounds to the throaty, metal-stringed strum of the African berimbau. To the north, once-sleepy Belem has turned into a throbbing mainstream of the Amazon's economic life, thanks to the highway linking it to Brasilia. In the remote Amazon city of Manaus, Brazil's fabled old turn-of-the-century rubber capital, life moves almost as languidly...
...largest share of the aid to Hanoi -about $600 million a year-comes from the Soviet Union, which provides most of the North's oil and such larger equipment as trucks, tractors and generators. Russia has equipped almost the entire North Vietnamese air-defense network, including some 8,500 antiaircraft guns, about 25 surface-to-air (SAM) missile batteries, and squadrons of jet fighters that range from the new model MIG-21s to Korean War-vintage MIGs. It has also supplied some 20 patrol boats for harbor and canal duty plus a number of mammoth helicopters that can carry...
...insurance is not adequate, Union Oil will presumably have to bear the brunt of the claims. Conceivably, Union could fight back by entering a countersuit against the British government for, of all things, piracy. Although British fighter planes bombed the ship "in defense of the realm," the Torrey Canyon at the time was actually outside British territorial waters...
Before litigants against Union Oil can collect, however, they may have to go through lengthy court battles. In a similar though smaller case in 1950, the owners of a grounded tanker lightened ship by dumping 400 tons of oil into the water near Liverpool; they were sued for oil damages on grounds of faulty navigation. Ruling that unseaworthiness was the only ground for such a suit, a British judge dismissed the case...