Word: siler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Siler City...
...tons would have to have segregated ballast systems-set up so that no oil is dumped when ballast tanks are emptied-to be admitted to U.S. ports. Still the Coast Guard concedes that it has followed "a gradualism type of approach" on matters of tanker safety, as Admiral Owen Siler, the Coast Guard commandant, put it in Senate Commerce committee hearings last week. Some maritime experts argue that the Coast Guard has reason to go slow on safety. They say that a tough approach would risk retaliation from other countries, who could make life difficult for U.S. ships in foreign...