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WORLD & NATION
Monday, April 10,1989 ~
Military helps clean up spill,
protects fishing port from oil
VALDEZ, Alaska (AP) — Military jets flew
skimmers, booms and beach landing craft into
Alaska on Sunday, and commanders issued a Pa
cific-wide call for more equipment to fight the
nation’s worst oil spill.
Kodiak, the nation’s richest Fishing port, pre
pared for the onslaught of oil by putting out log
booms, but the Coast Guard said the leading
edge of the spill, 60 miles away, retreated a bit
and began breaking up into tar balls and sinking.
“That’s good news,” said Bill Lamoreaux, the
state’s on-scene coordinator.
The tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a
reef near here March 24, spilling 10.1 million
gallons of crude into pristine Prince William
Sound. The oil has spread into the Gulf of Alaska
and fouled some of the many islands in the re-
gi°n.
On Friday, President Bush said he would send
the military to help with the cleanup. Exxon
Corp., which has been accused of moving too
slowly to contain the spill, will continue to pro
vide materials, manpower and money.
Also Sunday, a 40-foot gray whale was found
dead in an oil-fouled area. Wildlife experts said
they hadn’t determined whether it was the first
whale to succumb to the spill that already has
killed thousands of other animals.
Exxon said Sunday it was beginning to re
imburse fishermen for losses from the cancella
tion of the herring season and had paid $250,000
to cover expenses for Fishing boats attacking the
spill on their own.
Coast Guard spokesman Rick Meidt said an
Air Force general made a tour of the area and
sent a call to bases around the Pacific to find out
what was available and what the estimated time
of arrival in Valdez would be.
The Coast Guard’s Pacific commander, Vice
Adm. Clyde Robbins, was joining the federal ef
fort. Other experts dispatched by the Pentagon
surveyed the cleanup, and with the help of the
military, cleanup gear poured into Valdez.
“C5-A after C5-A is bringing in equipment,”
including skimmers, more booms and beach
landing craft to move people to the oily shore
line, Meidt said.
The Navy sent barges outfitted as hotels so
that when coastline cleanup gets under way,
workers will be housed near where they are
working.
The forecast called for continued northeast
winds, which will keep the oil moving toward Ko
diak, 300 miles from the accident site. Kodiak last
year produced a fish catch worth $166 million.
But Meidt said, “When the helicopters go up,
they’re seeing streamers a couple of miles long
and slicks that are breaking up at the edges.”
Herring boats and Coast Guard cutters were
dispatched to speed the breakup of the spill be
fore it reaches Kodiak. At Seward, on the edge of
a national park, a skimmer stood ready to protect
inner bays and fish hatcheries.
Three log booms constructed by two Kodiak
logging companies were set in bays, spokesman
Linda Freed said. Log booms are highly effective
as outer barriers, and standard plastic booms
were being used closer to shore, she said.
In Cordova, Exxon said it gave the local fisher
men’s union $250,000 for expenses to keep boats
in the cleanup and said it was writing checks for
losses from the canceled herring season. About
$12 million worth of herring are taken in a typ
ical season, which usually lasts less than a day at
spawning time.
The state Fish and Game Department said the
gray whale was found off Montague Island more
than 75 miles from Bligh Reef, where the tanker
ran aground.
An autopsy will be performed, officials said.
Such whales eat by straining sea water for minute
animals such as plankton and krill. Gray whales
are listed as an endangered species but their
numbers have rebounded in recent years.
South Africa offers guerrillas
safe passage from Namibia
Gas explosion
destroys motel;
1 man missing
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — An
explosion apparently caused by
natural gas ripped a 40-foot sec
tion from a motel Sunday, injur
ing 31 people, and firefighters
searched cautiously through the
rubble for the one man believed
missing.
The blast occurred four min
utes after someone phoned Mbn-
tana-Dakota Utilities at 1:07 a.m.
and reported a strong smell of
natural gas, said Dick Blee, the
acting Billings fire chief. Fire
fighters controlled the blaze by 4
a.m.
Blee said a trucrk 1 belonging to
an unidentified man was in the
parking lot of the three-story Su
per 8 Motel. All other registered
guests, about 60 people, were ac
counted for, officials said.
Two people were hospitalized
and 29 others were treated and
released at the city’s two major
hospitals, authorities said.
Authorities expressed relief af
ter learning that neither hospital
ized person was critically injured
and that no more than one per
son was missing.
“It’ll be a miracle if we have
only one dead in this,” Fire De
partment Capt. Marvin Jochems
said.
“The center of the building is
gone, and then there’s fire dam
age both ways,” Charlie Allen,
acting battalion chief, said.
White smoke continued billow
ing from the rubble as firefight
ers picked through it with the
help of a piece of heavy equip
ment used for excavation.
The explosion appeared to be
in a central laundry area with nat
ural gas lines, Blee said. Individ
ual rooms in the motel have elec
tric heat.
“We couldn’t get upstairs or
anything, but there were people
jumping out of windows when
they heard the explosion,” said
Jan Hardy, motel night clerk.
“I thought somebody was try
ing to break in the room,” said
°ne guest, William Kartsonis of
Denver. “You think it’s just a
prank, and then you look out and
see the smoke. It’s a scary feel
ing.”
One couple said the floor of
their room seemed to give way,
but the carpet remained fastened
around the edges, so they could
walk to the door.
Super 8 officials would have no
comment until the motel’s owners
arrived from Aberdeen, S.D., a
spokesman said.
WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) —
South Africa agreed Sunday to allow
black nationalist guerrillas safe pas
sage from northern Namibia to An
gola in an offer aimed at preserving
plans for Namibia’s independence
from South Africa.
The proposal could bring to an
end the fighting between South Af
rican-led security forces and guerril
las of the South-West Africa People’s
Organization. The violence has
threatened to derail the U.N.-super
vised plan for Namibian indepen
dence.
There was no immediate com
ment on the offer from the South-
West Africa People’s Organization,
TAKOMA PARK, Md. (AP) —
Take away Fido’s bowl of gravy-la
den goodies and treat him instead to
a dollop of yogurt or some steamed
broccoli. And if Tabby is bothered
by fleas, try using a collar soaked in
eucalyptus oil or sprinkling garlic on
her supper.
This prescription for happy,
healthy pets is written by Dr. Mon
ique Maniet, an auburn-haired, Bel
gian-born veterinarian who pi actices
holistic medicine for ailing dogs and
or SWAPO, which has been fighting
for independence since 1966.
However, the withdrawal plan ap
peared similar to a proposal made
earlier Sunday by guerrilla leader
Sam Nujoma, who called on his
fighters to stop firing, regroup and
allow themselves to be escorted into
Angola by U.N. personnel.
South African Foreign Minister
Pik Botha announced the plan fol
lowing two days of talks between his
government, Angola, Cuba, and
U.S. and Soviet observers. The talks
were held at Mount Etjo, a private
safari lodge 120 miles north of
Windhoek..,.
The withdrawal plan gives the
cats.
She uses vaccines and antibiotics,
if necessary, but prefers natural
foods, soothing herbs, Chinese acu
puncture, chiropractic massages and
plenty of tender, loving care to help
her furry patients heal themselves.
Maniet says she gets “astonishing
results” from acupuncture, espe
cially among dogs plagued by arthri
tis or itching skin. The needles, how
ever, are likely to provoke a yowling,
fur-flying complaint from pets.
guerrillas until April 15 to leave
Namibia. Under the proposal, the
SWAPO fighters would have two op
tions:
• They could assemble at one of
10 points inside Namibia and relin
quish their weapons to U.N. forces,
who will then fly them to bases in
Angola.
• They could travel to one of
eight assembly points on the Nami-
hian-Angolan border. They would
be allowed to keep their arms and
the Angolan government would take
responsibilty for returning them to
bases.
U.N. and Namibian territorial
personnel would be present at all 18
assembly points, according to the of
fer, which took effect immediately.
South Africa contends SWAPO
has sent more than 1,900 guerrillas
into northern Namibia from Angola
since April 1 in violation of a re
gional peace accord that requires
them to remain at bases at least 100
miles inside Angola.
SWAPO maintained that the
guerrillas were inside Namibia prior
to April and should be allowed to set
up bases in the territory.
But Nujoma said he made the
concession because he did not want
to give South Africa an excuse to
cancel Namibia’s independence
plans
Prenatal test helps doctors find birth defects
\SHINGTON (AP) — Allison Chin, 3, and her 2-
h-old brother, Robert, never would have been
except for a prenatal test called chorionie villus
“ii mother, Karen Chin, had decided against hav-
lildren after ending her first pregnancy with an
on because an amniocentesis test showed the baby
i severely disabling genetic defect. Family and
Is already knew about her pregnancy, and the
ion was a public trauma she didn’t want again,
en, Chin and her husband, Bobby, learned about
e new technique is performed weeks before am-
ntesis, long before the pregnancy is “showing,
ibility to keep her reproductive decisions private,
:hin, helped her decide to try again. Allison and
rt are the result. . r ..
VS made the difference between having a family
iot having a family for my husband and me, she
orionic villus sampling can determine the genetic
i of a fetus as early as eight weeks after concep-
This is seven to 10 weeks earlier than is possible
imniocentesis, a prenatal testing method in use foi
90 vears.
Those extra weeks are critical to millions of older
women who are most at risk for having children with
birth defects, and, hence, are more likely to stop a preg
nancy with abortion.
In both CVS and amniocentesis, the gender and ge
netic health of a fetus are determined through labo
ratory analysis of cells taken from the mother. But the
cells used for CVS develop much earlier than those for
amniocentesis.
CVS uses cells taken from the chorion, a part of the
developing placenta. The chorion is covered with small
projections called the villi. These contain cells geneti
cally identical with the fetus. By gently suctioning sam
ples of these villi, a doctor is harvesting the blueprint of
the unborn child without actually touching the fetus.
Ultrasonography, a way of viewing the fetus in the
womb, makes CVS possible. It uses high frequency
sound waves to make a computer-enhanced image of
the fetus and its location in the uterus. The machine
also guides the doctor to the chorion.
Depending on the position of the fetus, doctors ob
tain CVS tissue either through the vaginal birth canal or
by inserting a thin needle through the abdominal wall.
Veterinarian prescribes
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