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...important environmental battle seemed to be lost, a catastrophe imminent. "We were terribly disappointed that the ship broke apart before we could salvage the oil," says Sian Pullen, a marine-conservatio n officer with the World Wide Fund for Nature. "This is a horrible disaster: a toxic cloud of chemicals is spreading through the water." At first the area around Fitful Head was fouled by the oil. Birds such as the shag and the great northern diver became coated with crude and died. Whipped up by the 90-m.p.h. winds, an oily mist spread over the southern...
...number of female candidates who support abortion rights have won primary battles that could portend problems for antiabortion Republicans. In Houston, for example, congressional candidate Dolly Madison McKenna defeated antiabortion opponent Esther Lee Yao although Yao outspent her several times over. In Illinois' Republican primary, state representative Penny Pullen, an antiabortionist and disciple of right-to-lifer Phyllis Schlafly, was defeated by abortion-rights advocate Rosemary Mulligan...
...Illinois paralegal unseated a seven-term incumbent for the G.O.P. nomination to a statehouse seat -- by the toss of a coin. Mulligan, an abortion advocate, and pro-lifer Penny Pullen tied in the March primary. A court ordered the coin flip. Mulligan chose tails. Pullen is appealing...
...Reynolds and China to contribute $10 million each to set up a joint venture that will build a factory in the southern Chinese city of Xiamen and produce the first Sino-American cigarette. The new brand, as yet unnamed, will be a blend of American and Chinese tobaccos. Lester Pullen, president of Reynolds' international tobacco division, admitted that the cigarette must be good to satisfy Chinese smokers. Said he: "In their tastes, the Chinese are comparable to Europeans, especially the British...
...DUSEN PULLEN...