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...Atlantic waters off the coast of Virginia would seem a safe enough sea- lane for an American tanker. But for a moment last week the crew of the 30,000-ton Western Sun must have wondered if they were in the Persian Gulf. Seemingly out of nowhere, an AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile blew a 2 1/2- ft. hole in the ship's superstructure. Fortunately, the errant missile was not armed with its customary exploding warhead and missed the ship's cargo of 26,000 bbl. of oil. The 9-ft. projectile was apparently launched during training maneuvers...
Residents of Miamisburg, Ohio, found last week that they couldn't go home again after all. Early in the week 15,000 of them were evacuated when 15 cars of a 44-car transport train derailed, causing a tanker filled with phosphorus to explode and spew a plume of noxious white smoke over the small city (pop. 18,000) ten miles southwest of Dayton. Local hospitals treated some 300 people for respiratory problems and eye irritations...
...evacuees began to return home the next day when fire fighters had seemingly brought the burning chemical under control. But while the tanker was being righted, it reignited. As the vapors formed a three-mile-wide cloud that loomed like fog over the area, police cruised through the streets ordering residents to clear out once more. This time almost 30,000 area residents fled. It was the largest evacuation in Ohio history, transforming Miamisburg into a temporary ghost town...
...everything goes over until next week--and the struggle may not end even then. A week or two after the June 5 vote, congressional opponents of the Saudis are likely to begin a move to defer or cancel delivery of the five AWACS aircraft and eight support tanker planes that Riyadh has had on order since 1981. That move may fail, but probably only after another ugly, drawn- out fight that will advance U.S. interests in the Middle East not one iota...
...nights were hell." The survivors used up their only three emergency flares and sighted six ships without being able to attract attention. Finally, on the fifth harrowing night, with Deckhand Leslie McNish using a flashlight to blink the international distress signal SOS, the shipwrecked survivors flagged down a Norwegian tanker 335 miles north of Puerto Rico and lived to tell of the Pride's sorrowful fall...