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...complicated efforts to control the mile-long slick that resulted from a collision between the Panamanian-registered tanker Rachel B and a barge being towed by a tugboat in the Houston Ship Channel. Fortunately, the accident occurred in inland waters, where it is somewhat easier to clean up a spill than in the open...
With the Exxon Valdez disaster still grim and fresh in memory, any new spill would suffice to trigger a bad case of public jitters. As rotten luck would have it, last weekend brought three spills in a little more than twelve hours...
...slick from a 200-ft. gash in the hull of the World Prodigy began washing up on the shore within hours. Even faster, the Bush Administration, which had been caught flat-footed by the Valdez's spill in Prince William Sound, sent in a team of high-level officials, including Environmental Protection Agency administrator William Reilly, Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan and several White House advisers. While there was no chance the calamity would match the worst-in-history damage in Alaska, the Rhode Island spill could still wreak environmental havoc. The ship was loaded with a relatively light fuel that...
...fumes from the spill wafted by the beach-front mansions in Newport, cleanup crews promptly deployed booms to contain as much of the spreading slick as possible. Robert L. Bendick, director of the state department of environmental management, reported that the disaster had attracted so many curiosity seekers that they were hampering cleanup efforts. The department ordered sightseers off the beaches until after the cleanup, and boaters were asked to stay at their docks...
What does America think of Jim Wright? Dan Quayle? The Exxon oil spill? Find out by turning to the comedy monologues of Carson, Leno, Letterman and Sajak...