Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...makings of an ecological catastrophe. A mysterious explosion tears a huge gash in the hull of a supertanker off the northwest African coast, igniting a 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...
...curtains. Refrigerator- freezers will hold provisions to feed the 23 crew and 70 passengers for about a week. The plane could function that long on the ground or be refueled in the air should the land be scorched or otherwise inhospitable -- a Strangelovian concept the Air Force will not abandon...
...against St. Lawrence on Saturday, Flomenhoft threw his body around with reckless abandon, crushing three Saints in the first period, pasting another in the second, nailing Shawn Rivers twice in the third and scuffling with Rob White in overtime...
Meanwhile, Washington and the Vatican were trying to find a way out of their diplomatic deadlock. A Vatican statement asserted that Laboa was "doing his best to convince General Noriega to abandon the nunciature on his own," though it added that the legate "cannot force Noriega to leave." The White House for its part declared its "appreciation" of Vatican efforts and reassured the papacy that "there are no fixed deadlines...
...over Noriega's fate, President Guillermo Endara said the stalemate could end if the Vatican and the papal nuncio "say once and for all that Noriega doesn't deserve to be sheltered in the house of God, that he is a common criminal of the worst kind and should abandon the sacred place...