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...barge loaded with 4.2 million gal. of home-heating oil was pulling away from a terminal near New York harbor last week when two huge explosions tore gaping holes in the hull. Nearly 200,000 gal. of fuel poured into the Arthur Kill, a narrow waterway between Staten Island and New Jersey. For the fourth time this year, a major spill threatened birds, turtles and other wildlife that dwell in the fragile wetlands...
Accidents in New York's waterways have become the rule rather than the exception in recent years. Almost 400 spills occurred in New York harbor in 1989; this year there have been more than 100. Federal, state and local officials are supposed to regulate traffic through the waterways. But in the wake of severe budget cuts and a shortage of inspectors, the industry has been largely allowed to police itself. It has been doing a rotten...
...destroyer Storozhevoi. In Izvestia's account, Sablin made his bold move in November 1975, after most of the ship's 250-man crew had gone on shore leave in Riga, the capital of Latvia. The alarm was sounded by a sailor who jumped overboard as the ship was leaving harbor and by an officer who untied himself and radioed, "Mutiny aboard: We are off to the high seas." The apparent destination was Sweden, although another press report last week suggested that Sablin was actually heading for Leningrad to demand reforms of the Soviet system over nationwide TV. The ship...
...chance to campaign again for the Senate would elude him until 1948; in the meantime he was stymied, chafing at his comparative powerlessness as a Congressman. He was also made uncomfortable by his promise to Texas voters to volunteer for combat if war was declared. After Pearl Harbor, Johnson did ask for a leave of absence from the House, but he did not dash into battle. Caro meticulously records L.B.J.'s attempts to gain desk jobs in Washington and his junkets up and down the West Coast inspecting Naval facilities. Finally, facing political humiliation, he flew to the Pacific, went...
...July 18, 1863, the blacks of the 54th Massachusetts led a virtually suicidal assault upon Fort Wagner, a massive Confederate earthwork guarding the approach to Charleston, S.C., harbor. At a critical moment in Glory's version of the attack, Trip, the runaway slave-soldier played by Denzel Washington, seizes the American flag and runs forward with it to his death. His death says this: "I did not want your white man's flag; earlier I refused the 'honor' of carrying it. But I will do it now, dying with other black men, because, understand me, we are citizens...