Oil Firms Fined Over Offshore Drilling Safety Violations
Three major oil companies Shell Humble Union and Continental pleaded no contest to failing to follow federal safety regulations on offshore platforms. Fines totaled 2 000 for Shell 300 000 for Humble 24 000 for Union and 242 000 for Continental. The fire on the Shell rig near Louisiana prompted plans for a relief well while authorities said offshore lease sales would not be postponed. Two workers were killed in the incident.
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New Orleans
Shell Oil Co
Louisiana
Humble
Union
Continental Oil
Gulf
Richard Nelson
Shell
Gulf of |Ron
Mexico
U.S. Dist
Fred J. Cassiery
Continental
Chevron Oil Co
Shelbig
Interior Department
Washington
Marines hostility to Vietnamese forces and officers, study says
Harvard researcher Dr. Charles J. Levy cites interviews with 60 ex Marines showing hostility toward the South Vietnamese army and American officers, not the Viet Cong. He warns of deep emotional damage from combat, urges reverse boot camp and a public works program for veterans before they return home.
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Washington
Senate
Charles J. Levy
Harvard Medical School
Pri
Vietnam
Levy
GI Atrocities Alleged By War Crimes Inquiry
Former Army intelligence officer Kenneth Osborn testifies at a war crimes inquiry that American troops in Vietnam tossed two prisoners from helicopters to coerce disclosures and witnessed a Marine drive a sharpened peg into a prisoner's ear. He describes agents murdered for knowledge and claims multiple operations were terminated with extreme prejudice.
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Washington
Army
Kenneth Barton Osborn
525Th
Vietnam
Osborn
Pentagon
American University
Hope Ebbs On Consumer Protection Agency Fight
Supporters of a federal consumer protection agency face a stalled effort in the 91st Congress after a House Rules Committee vote 7-7 blocked the bill from reaching the floor. Rep. Rosenthal's chief sponsor say the measure is effectively dead, though leaders may seek a parliamentary maneuver to revive it before adjournment. The Senate had advanced a similar bill a day earlier, prompting disappointment from the Consumer Federation of America.
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Washington
Federal
Consumer Protection Agency
Bob Eckhardt
D-Tex
Rules Committee
Congress
House
Benjamin
Rosenthal
D-N.y
Government Operations Committee
Chet Holifield
D-Calif
Senate
Consumer Federation of America
Board Raps Clear Lake Laxity
HOUSTON AP Nine Clear Lake sewage treatment facilities face criticism for lax compliance with Texas Water Quality Board orders. Deadline midnight Tuesday required 27 facilities to report planned treatment methods. NASA Webster Deer Park among those delayed or noncompliant. board urged advanced treatment, containment, regionalization, or basin avoidance.
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Houston
Clear Lake
Texas Water Quality Board
Paul Philbin
American Cryogenics, Inc
la Porte
Cosmodyne Corp
Friendswood
Phoenix Chemical Co
NASA
Webster
Deer Park
Philbin
Self Defense teacher trains youths in Carbondale karate
Mike Wadiak a fourth degree black belt in Isshin ryu teaches self defense to kids in Carbondale Ill Among his students Joy Reames 7 Chuck Popp 11 Wallace Lockhart 15 and Lance Avery 16 the white belts beginning rank Wadiak a graduate student at Southern Illinois University earned his first degree black belt at 16.
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Carbondale, Ill
Mike Wadiak
Joy Reames
Chuck Popp
Wallace Lockhart
Lance Avery
Wadiak
Southern Ilinois University
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