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...states that border on the gulf belatedly decided to meet in Kuwait to search for a solution to the problem, but the politics of the 2½-year-old Iran-Iraq war quickly got in the way. At week's end there was no agreement on how to cap the gushers, much less on how to clean up the resulting mess. Even as the ministers spoke, patches of tar started to wash up on Bahrain's sandy beaches...
...they had offered Texan Red Adair, the world's best-known oil troubleshooter, $1 million to supervise a repair effort, but that he refused to work under war-time conditions. The immense slick developed, says a Western diplomat in Bahrain, because "no one will go out there and cap a well unless he's sure he is not going to be shot...
...record holder: a 1979 spill off the east coast of Mexico that took nine months to cap...
...wife Laurie, an emaciated woman known as Walking Dead, is "cooking" a mixture of heroin and cocaine in a soda-bottle cap for her guests. She squirts in water, then heats the cap with a match. She reaches into an empty Quaker Oats box where she stores the "works"-hypodermic needle and syringe-and sucks up the liquid into the hypo. It costs $2 to shoot up, plus $3 for a new needle or $1 for a used...
...sports cap the size of a manhole cover jammed down on his great shock of white hair, the American traveler stood by China's Great Wall and sang Danny Boy. Sure and begorra, it could only be that wandering curator of Irish wit and Boston wisdom, Tip O'Neill, 70. The Speaker of the House has been spending his Easter recess in China with a contingent of 13 Congressmen on an itinerary that last week included visits in Peking with both Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, 78, and Premier Zhao Ziyang, 64. After venturing that there had been...