Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kuwaiti government-in-exile. In Taif, Saudi Arabia, where the Kuwaiti administration has settled for the time being, experts plotted the prevailing currents in the gulf and concluded that in only a few days the giant spill could reach Jubail, Saudi Arabia. That is where a mammoth desalinization plant provides much of the potable water consumed in the kingdom's eastern province -- a military target if ever there...
...last Friday, intense consultations began. Some argued for blowing Sea Island to smithereens. Others demurred, estimating that it could take two years to rebuild the facility. Most of the oil would dissipate anyway, they claimed, and floating booms placed near Jubail could capture the residue before the desalinization plant was seriously threatened. By Saturday morning, the options ranged from an air strike on Al- Ahmadi to a special-operations action designed to stanch the spill, but no decision had been reached...
...predictions of millions of dollars' worth of damage to water-supply systems and the ruination of the sport-fishing industry. A year ago, the city of Monroe, Mich., lost its water supply for two full days because intake lines were plugged with zebra mussels. Earlier, Ford Motor's casting plant in Windsor, Ont., found the creatures choking off the flow of cooling water to its furnaces. Boaters, meanwhile, have watched their hulls and engines become encrusted with mussels...
...utilities and industries, the zebra mussel represents one of the biggest maintenance challenges next to corrosion. Detroit Edison, for example, has spent $500,000 cleaning the critters from the cooling system of its Monroe power plant. "Our plant," says superintendent Sam Smolinski, "has turned into a zebra-mussel nursery. Frankly, we can't fathom things getting any worse...
Moving to seize Lithuania's self-defense headquarters and main printing plant in Vilnius, armed assault forces opened fire at the plant, known as Press House, shooting into the air and smashing windows. Though most soldiers apparently fired blanks and only one colonel used live ammunition, eight people were reported wounded, one young man shot in the face. As air-raid sirens shrilled across the cobblestone streets of the capital's center, angry young civilians at the publishing center surrounded a tank. "Why are you here?" they screamed at a crew member. "What are you doing?" Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis...