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...loaded vessel's 12 tanks and setting it ablaze. Fortunately, most of the escaping oil quickly burned off or evaporated, calming fears of environmental damage to fishing waters and the coasts of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. By week's end emergency workers had secured the drifting 260,000-ton ship to a tug and had brought the blaze under partial control. It was the third major tanker accident in as many weeks...
After the radio messages were picked up in Belgrade, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees dispatched a truck convoy with an 80-ton relief shipment. But there was no certainty it would arrive, since earlier U.N. attempts to reach the town had been turned back by Serbian militiamen and mines on the snowy mountain roads. Officials said they were negotiating with the Serbs for permission to enter the area. Meanwhile, in a warm and comfortable hotel in Geneva, Bosnia's government tentatively agreed with Serb and Croat forces last Tuesday to establish a decentralized federation of 10 provinces. The complex...
PLUTONIUM IS SCARY STUFF: INHALING A SPECK OF it too small to see would mean certain death. So the 58-day voyage of the Akatsuki Maru, which exposed a 1.7- ton cargo of plutonium oxide to treacherous seas and possibly even to pirates lusting for nuclear booty, made plenty of people nervous. When the hot shipment finally completed its journey from Cherbourg, France, to Tokai, Japan, 140 km (90 miles) northeast of Tokyo, it was greeted by 1,000 protesters, some of whom had painted the universal radiation warning symbol on their faces. The crowd eventually dispersed and the cargo...
...noon the lead armored vehicle, with Old Glory waving, shifts into first gear, followed by 76 five-ton trucks, humvees and amphibious light armored vehicles. Belt-fed machine guns, mortars or antitank missile launchers are mounted on each vehicle. Every one of the 700 carries an automatic rifle. Marines pull on heavy desert-camouflage flak jackets and don steel helmets. Ammunition clips snap into place. The men of Team Tiger, the name given to the group of Marines going to Baidoa, are expecting trouble...
...five-ton truck, Lance Corporal Greg Riles, 22, laughs off predictions of danger. "Scared? With all this?" he says, gesturing toward the olive-green steel vehicles surrounding him. "In a way, I'm sort of hoping for a little combat. All this time you train for this. You carry these weapons, and you want to use them...