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...first time in my memory when the outlook for the international economy is forcing analysts to scale back their short-term domestic projections here in the United States. The international picture is impinging very seriously on the domestic outlook and creating a clear fear that is beginning to spill over into domestic decision making...
During the congressional battle on raising taxes, Ronald Reagan emphasized that he was still committed to cutting federal spending. Any appropriation bill that threatened to spill over the budget limits previously agreed to by Congress, he said, would be vetoed. His first test came last week: a $14.2 billion supplemental spending bill that provides additional money for fiscal 1982 programs. That amount was both too much and too little to satisfy Reagan, who felt that it shortchanged defense in favor of added domestic outlays. "So even though it means delay in getting legislation," the President announced in a Saturday radio...
Dead water birds, their gooey bodies strewed along a filthy shore. It is a sadly familiar scene in the wake of a major oil spill. For one man, however, the sight evoked more curiosity than pathos. After viewing photos of the 1967 Torrey Canyon grounding off the Cornish coast, Al Crotti, an American international lawyer based in London, had a novel idea: "If feathers attracting the oil are part of the problem, why can't feathers be part of the solution?" Why not indeed? Now being added to the arsenal of weapons for fighting oil spills is Seaclean...
Crotti's barnyard brainstorm has already undergone tests at a 31,500-gal. spill in the Mississippi River 20 miles downstream from New Orleans. The oil had spread over a 14-mile area, washing into coves and turning the marshy ground into a black mush the locals call "gumbo." While strings of floating booms helped contain the spill, a four-man team from Peterson Maritime Services, the largest private firm in the gulf area treating oil spills, began tossing out about 100 lumpy white squares from their flat-bottomed swamp boats. Almost at once, the muck began to stick...
...used in heavy seas, where they can be strung together and dropped over oil concentrations. Unlike straw, another natural absorbent, the pillows are easy to retrieve with a long-handled pole or a net rigged between two trawlers. They are very light, easy to stack and transport to spill sites. After use, they can be buried or burned without causing toxic smoke...