Word: tankerous
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Details of the incident are sketchy. Abdul Wadood Wafamal, first secretary in the Afghan embassy in New Delhi, would confirm only that a "gas tanker" had exploded in the tunnel. Without offering additional information on the accident, he argued against reports of enormous casualties. "We would have had to call for help internationally if such a disaster had occurred," said Wafamal. But Western diplomatic and military sources, citing reports from Kabul, and Afghan refugee leaders in New Delhi claim that a major tragedy did occur. One eyewitness, a refugee who gave his name only as Abdul, was riding...
...happened two weeks ago, but because of restrictions on journalists moving about the country, word started trickling out only last week. According to Afghan refugees newly arrived in Pakistan, a fuel tanker in a military convoy collided with another military truck 70 miles north of Kabul, in the 1.7-mile-long Salang Tunnel through the Hindu Kush mountains. Initial reports said that there was a fiery explosion. As many as 700 Soviet troops and 2,000 Afghan soldiers and civilians may have died. Later press estimates put the total number of deaths at between...
...everyone in the oil-cleanup business is enthusiastic about Seaclean. For example, Joseph Nichols of the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation considers chicken feathers just another absorbent and "small-scale stuff," not suitable for containing large spills at sea. Nevertheless, cleanup crews may need all the help they...
Though there have been no large-scale tanker disasters since 1979, lesser oil spills are a common, and underreported, occurrence. Pollution experts estimate that every year 3 million tons of crude seep across U.S. coastal waters. Though feathers may seem a risibly simple solution to a high-technology problem, pillows are being taken seriously. Barry notes with satisfaction, "We already have two oil companies that have stopped laughing and placed trial orders...
...injured. According to the British Defense Ministry, the ship was ordered by radio to head for an Argentine port within 15 minutes or face attack. Argentina denied any knowledge of the incident, but on June 2 an Argentine C-130 made a similar attack on a British oil tanker within the 200-mile zone, causing little damage...