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- <text id=93TT2389>
- <title>
- Feb. 01, 1993: Malaccan Mishap
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 01, 1993 Clinton's First Blunder
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- HEALTH & SCIENCE, Page 23
- Malaccan Mishap
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Yet another tanker accident. But the ecological damage appears
- light.
- </p>
- <p> In a drill that has grown all too familiar, salvage and
- fire-control specialists were rushed to the scene of a burning
- oil tanker, this time near the entrance to the Indian Ocean's
- Malaccan Strait. The Danish-owned Maersk Navigator, carrying 78
- million gal. of light crude, had collided with an empty Japanese
- tanker, rupturing one of the loaded vessel's 12 tanks and
- setting it ablaze. Fortunately, most of the escaping oil quickly
- burned off or evaporated, calming fears of environmental damage
- to fishing waters and the coasts of the Indonesian island of
- Sumatra. By week's end emergency workers had secured the
- drifting 260,000-ton ship to a tug and had brought the blaze
- under partial control. It was the third major tanker accident
- in as many weeks.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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