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...widely viewed as America's Environmental Enemy No. 1. As the dimensions of the catastrophe in Prince William Sound came into focus, people had little trouble deciding where their sympathies lay: with the seabirds and otters suffering and dying in the oil-laden waters, not with the hard-drinking skipper who was in his cabin doing paperwork when his tanker plowed into Bligh Reef...
...Johnstone, miffed that Hazelwood had never apologized for his role in the spill, sentenced him to 1,000 hours of cleanup labor and $50,000 restitution to the state, but suspended a 90-day jail sentence and a $1,000 fine. His lawyers vowed to appeal. Had the defrocked skipper been found guilty on all charges, which included a felony count of criminal mischief and misdemeanor counts of intoxication and recklessness, he could have faced more than seven years in prison and $60,000 in fines. "I'm just relieved," said Hazelwood...
...more than 100 civil damage suits that will keep lawyers overpaid for years. After the jury rendered its verdict, Hazelwood talked wistfully about going back to sea. "That's what I do," he said. His attorney suggested he might even try to persuade Exxon to reinstate his client as skipper of an oil tanker. As unlikely as that now seems, no one can dismiss the surprising reversal of perception that last week's verdict seemed to confirm. Said Mei Mei Evans, coordinator of an Alaska-based coalition of environmentalists called the Oil Reform Alliance: "Exxon and Hazelwood are just...
...rogue lunatic nor an officer grimly carrying out a scheme to upset the cold war balance of terror. Then he must somehow manage to get himself aboard the U.S.S. Dallas, the American sub that has located Red October in the vastness of the Atlantic, and persuade its tough, dubious skipper (Scott Glenn) to help Ramius elude his Soviet pursuers...
From his room at the Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage, Joe Hazelwood has an unimpeded view of ice-choked Cook Inlet and the snowy peaks of the Alaska Range looming 100 miles to the north. But across the street in Courtroom C of Alaska Superior Court, where the defrocked skipper of the Exxon Valdez is trying to sort out his legal future, the outlook is murky...