Pipeline Future Up In Air
The 800 mile Alyeska pipeline across Alaska is performing pumping Alaska North Slope oil after nine years and $9 billion of controversy and construction. But where it’s all to go nobody knows. The oil companies trained skippers and crews to navigate tankers through Valdez harbor while capacity outstrips West Coast refineries. Multiple Midwest piping plans face delay and opposition.
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Martin Heerwald
United Press International
Alyeska
Alaska
Alaska North Slope
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co
Valdez
West
Midwest
Interior
Federal Energy Administration
Long Beach
Calif
Midland
Tex
California Air Resources Board
Los Angeles
Exxon Corp
California
Northern Tier Pipeline Co
Port Angles
Wash
Strait of Juan de Fuca
Puget Sound
Minnesota
Washington
Dixy Lee Ray
Japan
Gulf
Valdez boom to fuel town's growth and hopes for gas line
Valdez Alaska, once a six of the state’s population center due to the oil pipeline, saw its imported work force shrink from about 6,000 to 600 as residents stay, while annual city revenue leaped from 500,000 to 11.4 million. Tankers are expected to begin visiting late July as Alyeska builds a modern terminal with a satellite control center, treatment plant, storage tanks, and the world’s largest floating berth designed to cope with tides.
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Valdez
Alaska
UPI
North Slope
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co
Con
Coast Guard
Homer Purdy
Alyeska
Death by Own Action Triggers Auto Crash Rise
A seven year study from the University of California San Diego links death by own action reports to a temporary rise in motor vehicle fatalities. In the week after such reports the auto death rate climbs about 9.12 percent, up to 18.84 percent after heavily publicized suicides, after adjusting for traffic and trends.
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San Diego
UPS
University of California At
David R. Phillips
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Supreme Court abortion ruling sparks broad political fight
The court says states need not fund elective abortions with Medicaid nor require public hospitals to perform them. Anti abortion forces vow action in several states including Michigan where lawmakers seek to end state payments for poor women's abortions. New York faces potential impact as it halves Medicaid funded abortions amid existing orders.
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Marc Charney
Associated Press
Supreme Court
House
Michigan
Washington
Jack Welborn
St. Louis
James Conway
John Poelker
Frank Susman
American Civil Liberties Union
New York City
New York
Burger Writes for Majority Warrantless Search Opposed
The Supreme Court upheld warrant requirements in a Boston footlocker seizure tied to a marijuana arrest. Chief Justice Burger, writing for seven justices, ruled privacy in locked foot lockers equals home privacy and rejected warrantless searches absent exceptions. Dissenters Blackmun and Rehnquist favored permitting searches without warrants when tied to a valid arrest in public.
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Washington
UPI
Justice Department
Supreme Court
Warren Burger
Boston
South Station
Federal
Burger
William Brennan
Harry Blackmun
William Rehnquist
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