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By Tom A. Madison
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal
investigators spread blame widely
for the Exxon Valdez oil spill Tues
day, citing the captain, his third
mate, the Coast Guard and local au
thorities as well as Exxon Corp. for
failing to provide “a fit master and a
rested and sufficient crew.”
The National Transportation
Safety Board voted unanimously in
assessing probable causes for the na
tion’s worst oil spill, the March 24,
1989, accident that dumped 11 mil
lion gallons of crude oil into Alaska’s
Prince William Sound.
The board said the third mate
failed to properly maneuver the ves
sel, the alcohol-impaired captain
failed to give proper supervision,
Exxon failed to provide a crew up to
its task, the Coast Guard failed in
traffic control and local authorities
failed to provide effective piloting
services in the Alaskan port where
the vessel originated.
The board, concluding a 16-
month investigation, criticized Ex
xon Valdez Capt. Joseph Hazelwood
for leaving his third mate at the
helm before the ship ran aground.
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Hearing loss plagues city
Anti-noise activist
discovers earfulls
of N.Y. screeches
NEW YORK (AP) — New York
ers may not have heard the news
over the screech of subway trains,
the boom of oversize car stereos and
the wail of firetruck sirens, but the
nation s noisiest city is getting even
LOUDER.
“We’re losing our hearing and we
don’t even know it!” says anti-noise
activist Arline Bronzaft, a Lehman
College psychology professor who’s
conducted research on the effects of
noise.
On a recent morning she stood at
an Upper East Side intersection,
decibel meter in hand, trying to be
heard over the rumble of trucks and
buses.
“We’re getting 90 decibels, and
this isn’t even Broadway,” she
shouted.
She crossed the street to where a
jackhammer was pounding a side
walk. The meter hit 100.
“Noise is where cigarette smoking
was 30 years ago,” Bronzaft says.
“Everybody knows it’s bad for you,
but a lot of people don’t do anything
about it.”
Prolonged exposure to 85 decibels
or more can damage your inner ear
and cause permanent hearing loss,
increase your blood pressure and
cholesterol and give you ulcers and
indigestion.
Even on a side street with no traf
fic Bronzaft’s noise meter ranged be
tween 70 and 75, like a room with a
loud air conditioner or a quiet vac
uum cleaner.
Although there is no scientific evi
dence that New Yorkers are partic
ularly hard of hearing, studies have
indicated that people living in rural
settings tend to lose less hearing over
a lifetime than those who live in cit-
year, according to some experts.
Noise seems to beget noise. Dr.
Thomas Fay of Columbia Presbyte
rian Medical Center says that as the
city gets louder, so must fire engine
sirens to be heard over the din. Fire
fighters lose more of their hearing,
and demand even louder sirens.
And there’s always a new earache,
such as “boom cars” — vehicles
equipped with huge speakers, some
times filling the rear floor space of
hatchback cars.
Bronzaft was visiting her mother
the other day when one drove past.
“Suddenly the whole house shook,”
she recalls. “I thought someone had
turned on the radio full blast in the
next room.
Noise is where cigarette
smoking was 30 years ago.
Everybody knows it’s bad
for you, but a lot of people
don’t do anything about it.”
—Arline Bronzaft,
anti-noise activist
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city’s Bureau of Air Resources, says
New York is considered the nation’s
noisiest because of its population
density — fourteen times that of any
other city. And it’s getting noisier be
cause of increased traffic and con
struction.
Such increases and new sources of
noise boost the average noise level in
the city by as much as a decibel a
However, boom cars still rank be
hind the three airports, rush hour
traffic, air conditioners, discos, car
alarms and horns, construction and
elevated subway tracks.
The city’s noise code, which pro
hibits casual honking and construc
tion noise between 6 p.m. and 7
a.m., is one of the nation’s strictest;
the problem is enforcing it.
New Yorkers file more than
16,000 noise complaints a year.
Bronzaft notes that last year the city
Department of Environmental Pro
tection issued citations in response to
only about 20 percent of complaints.
Stempler says his office has only
42 agents to cover noise and air pol
lution complaints seven days a week,
and police have other things to do.
Besides, he says, noise is “a rela
tive thing. What I perceive as noise
might be music to your ears.”
Murder toll
rises due to
arms, drugs
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WASHINGTON (AP)-
America’s murder toll may breat
a decade-old record this year, tilt
Senate Judiciary Committee said
Tuesday in laying the blame oa
rising stockpiles of assault weap
ons and shrinking supplies of co
caine. T
If the pace of killing continues,
the committee projected thai
23,220 people will be murdered
this year, making it, in the words
of the panel’s chairman, Sen.Jo
seph R. Biden, “the bloodiest year
in American history.”
The panel said murders are
projected to top last year’s totalb
2,000 and even exceed the record
of 23,040 in 1980.
The current murder rate ol
10.5 per 100,000 people make
the United States “the mostmut
derous industrialized nation" it
the world, the panel said. It
Great Britain, the rate is 0.8 pe
100,000; in Japan, 1.0; in West
Germany, 1.2.
As reasons for the soarinf
murder toll, the committee cited:
• dwindling supplies of co
caine in major cities, which it said
have ignited drug turf wars
• A growing arsenal of assault
weapons in the hands of dm!
dealers and other lawbreakers
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weapons of choice for drug deal
ers and the weapons of doomfot
law enforcement personnel,'’ tfct
committee declared.
• A fresh wave of jobles
crime-prone teenagers.
The nation’s murder total ffl
18 percent from 1980 to 1985 but
has risen 22 percent since then.
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