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...doubts have arisen about many of the purported facts surrounding the spill and the role of Hazelwood, who faces up to twelve years in prison if convicted of the criminal charges pending against him in Alaska. A two-month TIME investigation of the accident has unveiled a wider web of accountability in which Exxon and the Coast Guard appear to share some of the blame for the worst oil disaster in U.S. history. As the Valdez's captain, Hazelwood will bear the ultimate responsibility for the spill. But whether he was drunk or sober, his actions were not the only...
Once the Valdez had run aground, however, the Coast Guard says it had no trouble spotting the stricken tanker on radar because it presented a wider profile and was standing higher in water. Many mariners dismiss the Coast Guard's explanation. "That's a ridiculous contention because any way you turn this vessel, it's as big as a building," says Michael Chalos, a maritime attorney who represents Hazelwood. "She has a beam of 166 ft. and a height from the waterline of about 75 ft. when fully loaded. The Coast Guard is trying to cover up for the fact...
...such a concept, saying that for the first time in 50 years, Europeans have a chance to take "the path of reconciliation." Many French remain dubious. Warns former Foreign Minister Jean Francois Poncet: "Gorbachev's common European home is a bid to engulf the European Community in a wider enterprise dominated by the Soviet Union...
Rhetoric aside, the decision in Webster revealed that there are now four Justices who want to keep the right to abortion intact, four who would like to overturn Roe and give the states wider discretion to restrict abortion, and one -- Justice O'Connor -- who cannot be placed with certainty in either camp. In past abortion cases, O'Connor has said she would allow state restrictions as long as they are not "unduly burdensome." But, abortion-rights advocates say, she has yet to meet a burden she considers to be undue. Among those that have passed O'Connor's standard: requiring...
...program that allows "compassionate use" of unproven drugs. Doctors who have dispensed the drug are convinced that it works, but all the conventional controlled studies have not been done. Nonetheless, the FDA last week approved ganciclovir for full marketing and sales. The agency also gave the go-ahead for wider distribution of another unproven drug, erythropoietin, which is used in cases of AIDS-associated anemia...