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...cleanup might have been easier on a lake or in the ocean. In that event, the diesel fuel would have stayed on the surface, where it could have been trapped with floating rubber booms and sucked up with vacuum hoses. But in this case, by the time emergency cleanup crews arrived, the Monongahela's turbulent waters had begun to break up the oil slick and disperse it through the river's depth. The water and oil were further mixed as they tumbled over + locks and dams on the Monongahela and Ohio...
College President Starr told the Review, "It's very important that the Oberlin campus get facts on their own, as opposed to operating in a vacuum, which they have been doing up until...
...treaty that Reagan and Gorbachev are to sign this week cannot exist in a vacuum for very long. While the U.S. has succeeded in separating INF from the bigger issues of START and SDI, the success could prove temporary and illusory. What the experts, Soviet and American alike, call "conceptual" linkage remains a fact of life. Unless the SS-25 and other ICBMs are dealt with in a strategic agreement sometime soon, they will eventually nullify the good news being celebrated this week in Washington and around the world...
Mansfield said he felt the Soviets see the INF treaty as an opportunity to distance the U.S. from its European allies. He emphasized that although the Soviets are destroying more missiles than the U.S., the result will be to create a missile vacuum in Europe that will make the U.S. more vulnerable to Soviet pressure...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra offers a children's series for some area students, said HRO conductor James D. Yannatos, a senior lecturer on music at Harvard. But he added that "in Cambridge there are no children's concerts as such. This is a way of filling a vacuum for kids who wouldn't have a chance to see a concert...