Word: stjepan
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...designed and helped fund a regional pollution monitoring system that included 84 laboratories to document conditions in the waters. The labs turned up some hopeful signs: the absorption capacity of the Mediterranean proved to be greater than many experts had imagined, and pollution levels were not uniformly critical. Concluded Stjepan Keckes, the Yugoslav marine scientist who headed the U.N. team: "The Mediterranean is sick, but it is not dead and it is not even dying...