Word: rigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dukakis adopted a more combative tone in his trip through California--he promised an administration with "more backbone" than the current one--his campaign also was fighting back with new ads attacking the Republican environmental record. One commericals shows two beachgoers wearing gas masks with an oil rig just offshore...
...speech in Longview, an east Texas oil town, Bentsen stands in front of a 60-ft. American flag and a silent, black oil rig. "Let's get down to us folks," he tells the crowd of about 100, old and young, black and white. "Five out of six prigs that were active in 1981 are now inactive." Yes . . . Yes! some exclaim. "The Reagan-Bush Administration's energy policy has been as empty as Dan Quayle's resume." A few yee-his ring out. But when Bentsen segues to Dukakis and the Massachusetts Miracle, the crowd becomes silent. After the speech...
...rig, which produced 140,000 bbl. of crude a day, along with natural gas, had been in operation since 1976 and was one of the oldest of the 123 fixed platforms in the British exploration area of the North Sea. Some experts cited equipment failure or metal fatigue as possible causes of the disaster. One widely held view was that there had been a leak in the natural-gas compression apparatus and that ignition had occurred through some kind of mechanical failure...
...been refurbishing three other British platforms left their jobs, out of concern for their safety. They knew that the Piper Alpha's crewmen had been given extensive training to help them cope with a disaster. But they also knew that the ill-fated workers on the demolished rig never had a chance to use what they had learned...
...years, the P. R. I. loses its ballot- box hegemony as opposition candidates make historic gains. -- An interview with the apparent winner, Carlos Salinas de Gortari. -- Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott visits the fortified Sino- Soviet border and reports on the prospect of replacing guns with trade. -- An oil rig explodes off the coast of Scotland...