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...Mississippi River 20 miles downstream from New Orleans. The oil had spread over a 14-mile area, washing into coves and turning the marshy ground into a black mush the locals call "gumbo." While strings of floating booms helped contain the spill, a four-man team from Peterson Maritime Services, the largest private firm in the gulf area treating oil spills, began tossing out about 100 lumpy white squares from their flat-bottomed swamp boats. Almost at once, the muck began to stick to the pillows. When they were pulled from the river 15 min. later, clear water miraculously began...
Shultz may even match Haig's famed rapport with European leaders. Says former Commerce Secretary Peter G. Peterson: "[West German Chancellor] Helmut Schmidt considers George one of the best friends he has, and has enormous respect for him. It's hard for me to imagine any one who would be more acceptable to the Europeans." The two men have vacationed together at Bohemian Grove, a private California men's retreat to which Shultz belongs...
...former Cabinet officers (including five Secretaries of the Treasury who had served in Democratic and Republican Administrations going back to 1961) warned early last week that "the huge budget deficits now in prospect . . . could lead to years of financial turbulence and industrial stagnation." The group, assembled by Peter G. Peterson, who was Secretary of Commerce in the Nixon Administration, proposed a one-year freeze on Social Security and other entitlement benefits, a $25 billion cut in defense outlays by fiscal 1985, new taxes on oil, gasoline and natural gas, and possibly even a delay or reduction of the 10% income...
...late, it is the rare bird that has seen hide or hair of Roger Tory Peterson, 73. America's foremost birder has been sequestered in his Connecticut studio updating A Field Guide to Western Birds. But with spring's arrival, Peterson ventured south to Texas to lead fellow Bird Experts Victor Emanuel, 41, Ted Parker, 29, and John Roulett, 38, in an effort to break the U.S. record for the most sightings in a 24-hour period. Says Peterson: "I had the best eyes and ears in Texas with me." There are some 550 species in the state...
...society's failure to adapt to change. "We are still waiting for their clear evidence of social breakdown," he says, "and all we get is 'drugs.' " "I wish we would get drugs," chirps an audience member. There is laughter and desk bashing. Yale's Brian Peterson tries anecdote. "I can't adapt to Reagan," he says, "I can't adapt to the fact that my federal scholarship money is gone...