European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                First to re Daft utmost Llyn Hoff Acihl full cation Fob the . Nutu forces  vol. 47, no. 340 sunday March 26, 19s9 it  lid 5unjj d 8693 a spill cleanup called too slow coast guard s Matt Loc Ocema. Displays casualty of big Oil spill Valdez Alaska a millions of Gallons of crude Oil that were spilled when a Anker ran aground spread across a wildlife Rich area of Ocean saturday while Crews briefly tried to pump out some of the Oil remaining in the ship s  situation i think was every one s secret Nightmare about what could happen with Oil Frame inthe sound said Dennis Kelso commissioner of. The Alaska department of Environ menial conservation. The biggest Oil spill in . History created a Slick eight Miles Long and vhf Miles wide m Prince William sound. The coast guard said Only reef Island and the Western Edge of Bligh Island had been touched by the Slick. This is the kind of thing we be dreaded All these years and now in s happened said gov. Steve cow per who flew to Valda. The 12,000-Mcmber United fishermen of Alaska criticized what the organization claimed was too slow a clean up operation. We feel that ibis should have been the easiest Oil spill in inc world to clean up said Riki Oil chairman of the Orianni Iarion s habitat committee. She noted that the spill had occurred in a protected area close to the Val Ducj Marine terminal and mat the water was  Oil said the spill had polluted Prince William sound s primary herring spawning area the herring Roe Harvest is expected to Start sometime in april. Fishermen also Lake Salmon and shellfish from in sound which serves As a playground for kayak cars sport fishermen and other outdoor enthusiasts. Las year commercial fishermen were paid about jb5 million for i hair Caich Ott said  re very concerned about inc poem Iii Impact on fisheries in Prince William sound 1 said Ken Par Ker director of commercial fisheries for Alaska. Steve Goldstein a spokesman for the Interior department in Washington said there s a High concentration of Seatter waterfowl sea Birds and Pink Salmon in that area. Some Birds have already died and we Are doing our Best to try to save the fish by containing his Oil to the area where it presently is and by trying to skim  about 270,000 barrels or 11.3 million Gallons of crude Oil from Alaska s North slope spilled Early Friday when the 987-foot Tanker Exxon Valdyn ran hard aground on Bligh reef about 25 Miles outside Valdez where it had taken on 1.2 million barrels. Pumping operations to Transfer some of the remain ing Oil  Exxon Valdez to another Lanker started Early saturday but the operations were hailed after about an hour the coast guard said. Coast guard it. De Wieliczki Cwierz said he did t  the pumping was slopped. This is the kind of thing we be dreaded. And now it s  gov. Steve Cowper Exxon wants to pump 200,000 barrels of the stricken ship s cargo Onlo the Exxon Baton Rouge in the Hope thai this would remove enough weight to i Llic ship Floal free of the jagged reef said Tom cing Lizino a spokesman fur Exxon shipping co.  port of Valow remained closed to Tanker. Traffic North slope crude Oil is shipped 800 Miles through the trans Alaska Oil pipeline front Prudenc Day m ugh 10valdez for shipment aboard tankers to refineries Oul Side Alaska the coast guard said the Exxon vol do struck the reef when in mane Vered outside Normal Tanker traffic lanes to avoid icebergs. The vessel s Captain Joseph Hazelwood has worked see Alaska on Back Page thousands in Moscow stage rally for Yeltsin a Day before election Moscow a thousands of peo ple attended a rally saturday for Boris Yeltsin the Maverick communist part member who has criticised the privileges of the party s elite in his Campaign for a seat in the new Congress soviets were to vote sunday to till 1,500 scats in the 2,2 50-Mcmbcr con Gress of people s deputies a new Cham Ber created last year in Broad electoral reforms championed by president Mik Hail Gorbachev the voting is the first contested election in the soviet Union in More than 70 years. About 10,000 people chanting slogans and waving posters attended the peace Ful outdoor rally saturday in a Large parking lot Nam to Lenin stadium. The demonstrators echoing a Central Iheme of Yeltsin s election Campaign demanded an end to privileges for the communist party s elite such As special food stores and chauffeured limousines. Yeltsin did Noi appear at the gathering about 5,000 people streamed into the parking lot under partly Cloudy skies be fore inc noon rally. The crowd swelled Lomore than 10,000 an hour laser forcing police to hold people Back from a roped off area hundreds of police lined the Entrance to the parking lot outside the former olympic stadium and scores of officers wailed i dozens of buses parted nearby hidden by Trees around a Bend in the Road to military trucks packed with soldiers stood by in Case the rally got out of control. This is what it must have been like in 1917," said a Yeltsin supporter referring to the year of the communist revolution. "1 have not seen anything like it in my lifetime.". Rally organizers from three Moscow political action groups obtained Permis Sion for the three hour event after convincing authorities that a Legal Demon stration would be preferable to an illegal one. Like inc rally in downtown Moscow on March 19 when thousands of Yeltsin supporters gathered and marched Yeltsin is running against Yevgeny Brasov director of  Aulo factory " that supplies limousines for the Kremlin leadership.  will represent allow Moscow in the new congress.-. Brasov 51,  a Low key Campaign on the Issue of ending chronic so sae Moscow on Back Page frown of pain a k   inh pc