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...their 14-in. guns on German artillery batteries atop the cliffs towering over Omaha Beach; the Nevada and three cruisers pounded nearby Utah Beach. Twelve miles offshore, thousands of infantrymen scrambled down sheets of netting into the boxlike landing craft that began chugging toward the heavily mined and barricaded shore. Aboard the flagship Augusta, General Bradley stood with ears plugged by cotton and watched through binoculars as the vanguard of the 1st and 29th Infantry Divisions waded slowly into German machine-gun fire on Omaha Beach. "The commanders who are engaged report that everything is proceeding according to plan," Churchill...
...Joan Z. Shore...
...went last week, on the streets of East Baltimore, on the campus of the largely black University of Maryland Eastern Shore in the town of Princess Anne, in the tiny Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church in Oxon Hill, Md., later in Texas at a San Antonio barrio and a West Dallas project, and on Friday night in the Mount Canaan Baptist Church in Shreveport, La. To dramatize his appeal to the poor, Jackson has taken to sleeping some nights in their homes rather than in hotels. Last Monday he stayed with William Jarrard, an unemployed white Baltimorean who bears...
...cleanup expenses that cost the French as much as $95 million. Local communities suffered losses of an additional $30 million. About 6,000 volunteers, aided by French soldiers, skimmed, scooped and sucked up 25,000 tons of crude from beaches, rocks and harbor floors. Nonetheless, some 10,000 shore birds died from the effects of the spill, and some 5,000 tons of contaminated oysters had to be destroyed...
...most evidence of the accident has disappeared. The coastline is clean and the shore birds have returned. Production of marketable oysters resumed in 1981. Scientists say that natural processes such as waves and tides dispersed much of the pollutant and that bacteria broke down some of the crude. An estimated 18,000 tons of oil deposited on the sea floor have all but vanished. After last week's decision, however, it may take Amoco a lot longer to recover...