Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Life. All in all, there does not seem to be much cause for gagging. Rhodesian farmers are rapidly diversifying their crops so that the country will no longer need to import such staples as wheat and soy beans. Despite the worldwide oil embargo, Rhodesia gets all the oil it needs from its good friend-and embargo breaker-South Africa. It also keeps its export market alive through agents in South Africa, in the Portuguese colonies of Angola and Mozambique and in the black African nation of Malawi (see following story). The Rhodesian pound may have been declared worthless on world...
...birthday party for a nonagenarian Texas oil millionaire is an unlikely occasion for the announcement of a new treatment that may be effective against some forms of cancer. No less unlikely, as a source of the promising substance, are common colon bacteria that multi ply in sewage and often result in the contamination and closing of beaches. Yet both these elements were present last week in the excitement over a procedure that has given signs of success in the case of just one cancer parent...
...women and children turned up with buckets and watering cans, formed human chains to rush the detergent from trucks into the water. At St. Ives, the town's entire 27-boat fishing fleet patrolled offshore areas with detergent. At least 15,000 sea birds were killed by the oil, and Britons rallied to save thousands more by cleaning their feathers with absorbent compounds...
August as Usual. The first dire predictions that the oil would pollute England's beaches for ten or 15 years were soon proved wrong. By week's end, while huge pools of slick remained offshore in a calm sea-thus remaining vulnerable to continued attack by detergents-the defenders had managed to keep sufficiently ahead of the incoming oil to clear most of the beaches. Prime Minister Wilson insisted that all the beaches and the sea would be clear by summer, urged vacationers not to cancel their plans. To illustrate his faith in his own prediction, he announced...
Economically, Nigeria needs the East far more than the East needs it. Ojukwu complains that his region contributes 35% of the nation's tax revenues and gets back only 14% in federal outlays. With coal reserves, a palm-oil industry and abundant oil along the coast near Port Harcourt, the East has the potential to go it alone as a viable state. Its population of 12 million (including 9,000,000 Ibos) is larger than that of either Kenya or Ghana...