Oregon daily emerald., March 30, 1983, Page 4, Image 4

War hampers oil spill cleanup
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Patches of a
growing, 100-square-mile oil slick from Iran
floated closer to the island-nation of Bahrain
and other Persian Gulf countries Tuesday,
threatening “untold environmental and
ecological damage,” experts said.
Fears were expressed in Bahrain that the
6-week-old slick — which could not be cleaned
up immediately because of the Iraq-lran war
was capable of "engulfing the whole island of
360,000 inhabitants. The crude from two bomb
ed oil fields, continued to gush into the widen
ing slick.
In the neighboring state of Qatar, second
in the line of the slick’s main area, the govern
ment issued a statement urging youth to be
ready to respond to the call of duty when
asked.”
Experts from 19 oil companies met in
Bahrain and issued a warning that unless a par
tial cease-fire was arranged between Iraq and
Iran in the blazing and leaking area of the
Nowruz oilfield, the entire Persian Gulf would
“become one vast oil-lake.”
Iraq and Iran were not represented at the
Bahrain meeting. But Iran has declared its
readiness to cooperate in capping the bombed
oilfields
Iraq has made no firm response so far, and
the Iraqi Embassy in Manama refused any
comment.
I he staiemem uy me uu companies
warned that the damaged wells “have the
potential for untold environmental and
ecological damage, and the total combined
anti-pollution equipment available would be of
little use unless top priority is given to the
repair and capping of the wells — the source of
the continuing pollution."
The statement urged the two warring na
tions to declare the Nowruz field zone, south of
the main Iranian oil terminal at Kharg Island,
“an operationally safe area for as long as it
takes for repairs to be effected by international
experts, who are on continuous standby
waiting for the go-ahead."
Kharg has been a favorite target of Iraqi
bombings. The Iranian ambassador to Kuwait
has accused Iraq of preventing colleagues of
American firefighting expert Red Adair from
operating at Nowruz.
The envoy also charged that the Iraqis
were using the threat of the slick to exert
pressure for a cease-fire in the 31-month-old
gulf war but asserted the Iranians were ready
only for a partial truce in the affected area.
Bahrain’s newspapers said the islands
may have to fight “a sacrificial” battle against
the advancing spill — maneuvering the slick in
to areas with the least inhabitants and to
economic installations so as to spare fishing
waters.
Reagan sends Soviets plan
to break missile deadlock
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pres. Ronald Reagan today
sent a compromise arms proposal to Soviet negotiators to
take back to Moscow in hopes of breaking the deadlock on
limiting medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe, a senior
administration official said.
Reagan personally refused to comment on the
development, but promised he would have an announce
ment on the subject Wednesday.
The president said he deliberately has made it clear in
the past that "we would negotiate in good faith on any
legitimate proposal” and that his “zero-zero" plan to
eliminate all medium-range missiles in Europe should “not
be taken as a complete, take-it-or-leave-it proposition."
In an interview with six journalists, Reagan said the
zero-zero formula remains his ultimate goal. As to the plan
ned deployment of U.S. cruise and Pershing II missiles in
Europe at the end of this year, Reagan said, “We’ve never
retreated from our position that we are going to deploy on
schedule.”
Refusing to discuss developments in the arms talks,
Reagan said, "We've made no change in our own goal, but
beyond that I can’t speak until tomorrow.”
Reagan’s proposal was outlined in Geneva,
Switzerland, by chief U.S. negotiator Paul Nitze on the last
day of the talks before the recess, according to a senior ad
ministration official who refused to be identified. The com
promise calls for an interim agreement that falls short of
Reagan's “zero-zero" plan.
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Oh Prince Andy,
they should have
called you Randy
LONDON (AP) — A woman
who said she recently
cavorted with Prince Andrew
in the Caribbean told a
newspaper the prince
“couldn't keep his hands off
us, but it was all good clean
fun."
Lucy Wisdom’s comments
were carried Monday by the
Daily Mirror, which also ran
three pages of photographs of
the prince on shore leave. An
drew, atielicopter pilot, is with
the aircraft carrier HMS
Invincible.
A front-page picture showed
the prince standing on a
poolside patio in Barbados
while blond ex-model Vicki
Hodge, 36, lounged in the sun
beside him in a bikini. A photo
on an inside page showed the
prince in the sea being carried
on Hodge’s shoulders.
The pictures were taken by
Hodge and her companions,
Wisdom, 26, and Tracie Lamb,
21, the report said.
The newspaper said 23-yeai
old Andrew, second son of
Queen Elizabeth II, at one
point seized the women and
dumped them fully clothed in
a swimming pool.
Hodge said: “Whatever
anyone thinks, nobody made
any sexual conquests. Nobody
can claim the crown jewels.”
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