Beaches of Brittany Sparkling Again After Oil Spill
Seventeen months after the Amoco Cadiz spill, Britanny beaches are clean and tourism rebounds. Hotels fill with visitors from Britain and France as the wreck lies submerged and the Ixtoc I well in Mexico’s Bay of Campeche becomes the era’s worst polluter.
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Brest
France
Amoco Cadiz Aon
Britsac
Amoco
Cadiz
Portsall
Mexico
Bay of Campeche
Amoco- Cadiz
Ixtoc I
Enlistees and officers noted from Winchester area
Curry and Elliott enlist in the Army with three year terms to train as medical specialists and head for Europe after basic and Fort Sam Houston. Other local servicemen include Major Elmo Phillips in Alaska, Master Sgt John Link at Fort Bliss, and airmen Buterakos and Cooper with postings in Illinois and Texas. Also referenced is residents pursuing damages from a Breton coast oil spill and related lawsuits in New York amid environmental losses.
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Curry
Lester D. Curry
Lawrence
Arlene Curry
Winchester
U.S. Army
Europe
Handley High School
Ford Mo
Fort Sam Houston
Texas
Army
Jonathan A. Elliott
Rudolph and
Gladys Elliott
Elliott
John Handley High School
Leonard Wood
U.s.rmy
Elmo D. Phillips Jr
Elmo D. Phillips
Front Royal
Elmendorf Air Force Base
Anchorage
Alaska
Phillips
Langley Air Force Base
Alaskan Air Command
Warren County
Citadel
Central Michigan University
Link
John W. Link,Jr
Rena Link
Mt. Falls Rt
Fort Bliss
Tex
Orrink
University of Virginia
University of Alaska
Myung Hye
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Anthony W. Buterakos
Thomas G. Buterakos
United Airman
Buterakos
Lackland Air Force Soon Lines
Illinois
Anna M. Cooper
William R. Cooper
Chanute Air Base
Air Force
Lackland Air Force Base
Steven P. Marco
James B. Marco
Marco
Paris
Tten
United States
New York
Amoco International Oil Co
Standard Oil Co
Indiana
Standard
North America
Auto Mechanics
Cadillac
Churchill
Pidain Sav
Sears Kenmore
LVL
Sears
Kenmore
SAA
Allentown
Harrisburg, PA
Lancaster, PA
Pleasantville
Scranton, PA
Toms River
Camp Hill
Muncy
Reading
Hanover
Lebanon, PA Ocean
Vineland NJ
Middletown, NJ
Hagerstown, MD
Salisbury MD
Bethlehem
Bloomsburg
Cambridge
Coatesville
Easton
Frede
Hazleton
Strouose
Strouosburg
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