Word: tanker
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...either by increased government regulation or public pressure. In September an alliance of environmental groups, bankers and investment-fund managers, known as the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies, unveiled a set of guidelines for corporate conduct called the Valdez Principles (a name taken from the Exxon Valdez, the tanker responsible for the Alaskan oil spill). Firms that agree to the guidelines must pledge, among other things, to conserve energy, reduce waste and market environmentally safe products...
...American policymakers show similar restraint when the controllers try to unnerve them by having a U.S. KC-135 tanker aircraft stray into Soviet airspace and a U.S. destroyer accidentally ram a Soviet submarine. In the role of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is Admiral William Crowe Jr., who in reality stepped down from that position only the day before the taping. "These things happen," he says...
Once the Valdez had run aground, however, the Coast Guard says it had no trouble spotting the stricken tanker on radar because it presented a wider profile and was standing higher in water. Many mariners dismiss the Coast Guard's explanation. "That's a ridiculous contention because any way you turn this vessel, it's as big as a building," says Michael Chalos, a maritime attorney who represents Hazelwood. "She has a beam of 166 ft. and a height from the waterline of about 75 ft. when fully loaded. The Coast Guard is trying to cover up for the fact...
After all the coverage of last March's Alaska oil spill, was there anything left to report? Nation editor Jack E. White figured there was. In the Los Angeles bureau, Brown pored over National Transportation Safety Board reports and testimony by tanker crew members and others to unravel the complex chain of events. Then he went back to Valdez to talk with Coast Guard investigators. Says Brown: "I found the web of culpability surrounding the accident was almost as sticky and far-reaching as the spill itself." Meanwhile, New York correspondent Behar, who wrote the story, interviewed Hazelwood's family...
COVER: Captain Joseph Hazelwood was the best skipper in Exxon's fleet until his tanker rammed an Alaskan reef and caused the largest oil spill in U.S. history...