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Ordinarily such leaks are repaired within weeks. Iran says that it sent experts to inspect the damage, but that they were bombarded by the Iraqis in air attacks. On March 2, Iraq announced that any ships that came near the damaged platforms would be treated as military targets. Iranian officials say they had offered Texan Red Adair, the world's best-known oil troubleshooter, $1 million to supervise a repair effort, but that he refused to work under war-time conditions. The immense slick developed, says a Western diplomat in Bahrain, because "no one will go out there...
...banker, lost his job, squandered his inheritance, and developed a hole in the septum of his nose. Nevertheless, he says, "I felt powerful, in control. Cocaine is ego food. It feeds the ego like nothing I've ever seen in my life." Tony, the owner of a Denver tire-repair shop, used four grams a day. Says he: "I wanted to feel like a kingpin, the life of the party. Coke gave me all of this. You get to feeling you're bulletproof." (Bulletproof Tony, arrested for selling more than half a pound to an undercover cop, is on probation...
Leonard's "Tale of Two Bridges" exemplifies a growing national problem which participants traced to three different factors. Knowlton added First, he said, the shift of responsibility from the federal to the state and local levels has caused a slowdown in the repair process...
...addition, participants felt that the present division of responsibilities for funding repair jobs among different levels of government, combined with the low growth rate of American industry, has exacerbated the problem, Knowlton added...
Topics raised at the conference included the city point of view of the infrastructure problem, the business point of view, and the different ways of financing repair projects...