Word: port
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...ecodisaster in a lifetime is enough for Dennis Kelso, Alaska's commissioner of the department of environmental conservation. Unless tankers that use the 800-mile trans-Alaska pipeline submit individual spill contingency plans by Nov. 13, Kelso says he will deny them access to the port of Valdez, effectively shutting down the pipeline. George Bush has warned that a shutoff of oil would not be in the "national interest." This is not Alaska's first such threat. After the Exxon Valdez ran aground in March, Governor Steve Cowper told oil companies to increase safety measures or he would shut...
Gorbachev said the steps were a follow-up to a speech he gave two years ago in the Soviet Union's northern port of Murmansk, in which he first proposed a nuclear-free zone in northern Europe. Two NATO countries in the region, Norway and Denmark, do not permit nuclear weapons in their territory in peacetime...
There was no immediate word about the status of the three other prisoners named by de Klerk--80-year-year ANC activist Oscar Mpetha, who has been hospitalized in Cape Town; Raymond Mhlaba, a co-defendent of Sisulu and Mandela who lives in Port Elizabeth; and Jafta Masemola, a member of the Pan Africanist guerrilla movement who lives outside Pretoria...
That night, I saw Lenny in a Port Washingtonrestaurant. You wouldn't believe the standingovation he got. Or how rudely he blew his admirersoff...
Arab League envoy Lakhdar Ibrahimi, who brokered the deal, promised that an immediate cease-fire would permit residents of battle-ravaged Beirut "to reopen their shops and return to their homes." The plan also calls for a lifting of blockades on Lebanese port cities. If the cease-fire holds, ! Lebanon's parliament is expected to convene this week to discuss political reforms demanded by the country's Muslim majority...