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...This is a mini-Alaska," declared New York Attorney General Robert Abrams, referring to last year's 11 million-gal. spill from the Exxon Valdez...
...spill. Both states want the oil giant to pay compensation for damage to the environment and reimbursement for the governments' cost of helping in the cleanup. Exxon's environmental bills are mounting. The company has spent more than $1 billion in its efforts to clean up the Valdez spill, and is being sued for billions of dollars more by the state of Alaska, the fishing industry and other aggrieved parties...
...fire that forces the crew to abandon ship. For nearly two weeks, the leaking, foundering vessel is left to drift toward the rich fishing grounds and unspoiled beaches of Morocco. Some 19 million gal. of crude oil ooze into the sea, nearly twice the amount disgorged by the Exxon Valdez in Alaska last March. A replay of grim images -- gooey, blackened shorelines and oil-soaked animal corpses -- appears inevitable...
East Europeans grapple with the sobering task of political, economic and moral reconstruction. -- Violence in the south and separatism in the north make nationalism one of Moscow's most pressing problems. -- An Iranian tanker spills nearly twice as much oil as the Exxon Valdez, but the immediate impact on the environment is less dire than that of the Alaska mishap...
...selection of the endangered earth as Planet of the Year. "This has been a busy year," says sciences editor Charles Alexander. "We ran a story on the environment about every other week, including reports on logging in the Northwest and Japan's environmental practices, and covers on the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska and the rain forests in the Amazon." Our guests at both conferences at least agreed on one thing: next year promises to be as hectic as this year on the international and environmental fronts...