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Kevin Costner doesn't just play water heroes in costly movies. He has sent $700,000 worth of liquid-separating equipment from Costner Industries Nevada Corp. to help clear up an oil spill in Japan. The firm also wants to show off the technology. "We can't get to use it here," says Dan Costner, Kevin's big brother, who runs...
Since the start of renovation in early June, HSA dealt with an oil spill under the building and had to remove lead paint and asbestos from the original structure. Explosive chemicals were also found in the basement, remnants from an old chemistry lab which was part of the high school that used to be located in the building...
...impossible to force him to face the commission. Embattled and isolated, he refuses to give interviews or even to pick up the telephone; an aide who answered a call last week described the unrepentant hard-liner as "unapproachable." Yet if auguries are to be credited, the swelling inquiry may spill over and reach even the "Groot Krokodil" (Great Crocodile), as he is known in Afrikaans. Last week, after rains caused the Touws River to burst its banks, Botha's living room was knee-deep in water, symbolic perhaps of what Tutu hopes will one day become a flood of justice...
According to Celozzi, the problem was generated by one bad line. A Milford sewage eruption and Boston University oil spill over the summer contributed to further river pollution...
...impossible to recruit new operatives. "The CIA has fled and abandoned a large number of people," says Rend Rahim Francke, director of the anti-Saddam Iraq Foundation in Washington. "All Iraqis--all those in the opposition--feel extremely let down by the U.S." The damage may also spill into the CIA's semicovert operation, aimed at moderating the regime in Iran. "It's going to give pause to anyone wanting to work with us on Iran," says a knowledgeable official...