Adair Caps Ekofisk Well After Eight Day Blowout
Texas oil disaster expert Paul Adair and his team sealed the out of control Ekofisk Bravo 14 well in the North Sea after eight days of gushing oil. They used blind rams and a four ton stopper, pumped mud to offset pressure, and halted a spill of about 8.8 million gallons over 170 square miles. Norwegian and U.S. officials debated ecological damage while investigations consider human error in maintenance and the removal of a blowout preventer.
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Stavanger
Norway
Paul
Adair
Ekofisk
North Sea
Midsea
U.S. Coast Guard
Cmdr
Frank Boersma
Environmental Agency
North Atlantic
Massachusetts
Torrey Canyon
England
Charles Lane
Phillips
Odvvar Nordli
Ekofish
Houston
Tex
Robert Archambeault
Phillips Engineering
Archambeault
Protesters Occupy Seabrook Nuclear Plant Site
More than 2,500 demonstrators protest at Seabrook New Hampshire site with backpacks and sleeping gear. They occupy a 700 acre area near a fenced 40 acre enclave as police and guards oversee the nonviolent sit in demanding cancellation of the plant.
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Seabrook
N.H
Wommen
New Hampshire
Seacoast
National
Meldrim Thomson
Clamshell Alliance
Community inquiry on school funding and facility issues
Readers ask Action Line about superintendent payroll in two years and lack of toilet paper at High Point Central High girls’ bathroom. Officials say most new posts are federally funded instructional positions. a maid shortage caused the bathroom issue. Other questions cover real estate courses, hedges blocking traffic, and auto body work at a Silver Valley home.
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High Point City
High Point Central High School
Edwin West
Board of Education
West
High Point
Central
E. A. Libby
Hal Hughes, Jr
Silver Valley
Denton
Thomasville
Phil Speaks
Administration presses welfare reform plan toward May deadline
President Carter and top aides reported progress on an administration welfare reform plan with a Monday public outline of general principles. The plan aims to make the system more efficient and equitable while encouraging work among able recipients. a full bill would come later.
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Washington
Carter
Walter F. Mondale
Charles Schultze
Council of Economic Adry of Health, Education and Welfare
White House
Rex Granum
Granum
Mondale Urges Energy Sacrifice as Carter Plan Gains Backing
Vice President Mondale told a Raleigh dinner crowd that Americans will adapt to energy conservation as Carter’s plan unfolds. He cited foreign oil dependence, costs, and the need for fair sacrifice, while Gov. Hunt urged broader Democratic wins. A separate Pfeiffer College embezzlement probe was announced by the State Bureau of Investigation.
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Raleigh
Carter
Walter Mondale
Mondale
America
Democratic Party
U.S
Jesse Helms
RNC
Jim Hunt
Hunt
North Carolina
Gov. Hunt
Misenheimer
State Bureau of Inestigation
Pfeiffer College
GOP Okays New Plans for Grass Roots Rebuild
The Republican National Committee approved a $7.5 million 1977 budget and a $1.5 million rebuilding program focused on minority recruitment and a bottom-up campaign. Charles Black, named political director, will oversee grassroots organizing and state and local party campaigns. Wright-M McNeill & Associates will manage the minority outreach targeting specific races and recruiting Black candidates and workers.
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Chicago
Republican Party
Charles Black
Black
Republican National Committee
Bill Brock
Brock
White House
Richard Nixon
GOP
Bease
Congress
Wright-McNeill & Associates
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Texas
Cathy Wolff
Anon
Guilford Tech
Davidson County Community College
GTI
DCCC
PRP
SBI
Pfeiffer
Sasser
Carroll Lowder
Stanly County
Troy Green
Special Investigations Division
State Department of Justice
Green
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