Seamen call U.S. ports garbage dumps for world tankers
In testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee, Seafarers International Union President Paul Hall urged strict U.S. crew requirements for oil tankers at American ports, labeling Liberian licensing a PR gimmick and accusing foreign crews of environmental risk. Marine Engineers Beneficial Association support echoed concerns about port conditions and tanker ownership. Coast Guard Commandant Adm Owen Siler defended regulatory action and noted slow enforcement due to State Department warnings ahead of the Law of the Sea Conference.
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UPI
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Gulf Coast
Paul Hall
Seafarers International Union
Hall
Senate Commerce Committee
U.S
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Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
Calhoun
Adm
Owen Siler
Coast Guard
Warren G. Magnuson
D-Wash
Siler
Argo
Nantucket Island
State Department
Class action suits still help in consumer cases
Chicago reports that despite Supreme Court limits the class action remains a handy tool for aiding consumers. A new American Bar Foundation study credits class actions with supporting antitrust enforcement and notes shifts in suit types toward civil rights, securities, and consumer credit actions while highlighting cost and notice issues and proposals to improve notices and state-level parens patriae actions.
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Christian Science Monitor
Chicago
Supreme Court
American Bar Foundation
Eisen
Beverly Moore Jr
Washington
Moore
Mark Green
Ralph Nader
Corporate Accountability Research Group
Coffin urges Carter to grant amnesty for war resisters
Former Yale chaplain and antiwar figure William Sloane Coffin urged President-elect Carter to declare unconditional amnesty for Vietnam War resisters. He cited Civil War and War of 1812 precedents and recalled Coffin’s own draft resistance involvement and later semiretirement in Strafford Vermont.
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N.H
UPI
Yale University
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Jimmy Carter
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Yale
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Sherman Tactic Valued as Uncle Billys Neckties
As Sherman’s troops advanced in Georgia they tore up metal railroad ties, heated them to soften, and wrapped them around trees to prevent reuse by Confederate forces. The improvised barrier earned the nickname Uncle Billys Neckties.
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Georgia
Uncle Billy
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