European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday May 21,1989 tugboats Low the crippled Tanker Exxon Valdez to port after its devastating Accident in the sound. Valdez ship monitoring adequate officer says Anchorage Alaska a coast guard personnel ceased physically plotting the movement of ships in the area where the Exxon Valdez ran aground after a new radar system was installed in 1984, the coast guard commander in Valdez Testi fied saturday. Bui cmdr. Steven Mccall told Federal investigators the change and a reduction in staff three years later would not have compromised safety for Tanker traffic at the site of the nation s worst Oil spill. Mccall made his statements on the fifth and final Day of a National transportation safety Board hearing on the March 24 grounding of the 987-foot Exxon Tanker in Prince William sound. The coast guard s ability to Monitor traffic in the sound has come under scrutiny since the Acci Dent in which the ship spilled nearly 11 million Gallons of North slope crude Oil. Nosb officials who heard earlier in the week from representatives of Exxon some Crew members on the Tanker stale officials and others have said thai they won t Complete their report into the cause of the spill for several months. Mccall said the new radar system has functions that make it unnecessary to physically plot ship movements. He said the coast guard traffic station in Valdez sustained some staff culs in 1987, and some staff members duties were reassigned but it did not pose any major problems. Ship monitors testified earlier that they could not Sec the Exxon Tanker on radar in the minutes before it ran aground and had no indication it was in trouble. Mccall said the radar by slim has a Range of up to 20 Miles but the Range varies with the weather. It s Well within inc realm of possibility that the Monitor could have lost a reliable fix the night of the Accident he said. Mccall also confirmed thai the Exxon Valdez did not have the coast guard s permission to leave Normal traffic lanes. Normally a Tanker s Crew is supposed to ask for such permission. Members of the ship s Crew have said they left the lanes to avoid ice and acknowledged that permission had not been asked. Asked if he thought that there was anything the coast guard station could have done to prevent the Accident Mccall said  Nosb staff member Lou Colucciello suggested that the Accident might have been avoid def the coast guard had notified the Tanker that it was outside the traffic lanes. Presumably they already knew that Mccall replied. In earlier testimony. Third mate Gregory cousins who was in control of inc ship Al the time of inc Accident said he was aware it was outside shipping lanes. In other testimony saturday Mccall said there was no reason for him to take Over the response to the Exxon Oil spill soon after it happened because resources to Deal with the spill weren t on hand. There was no Benefit to be derived from retaking it Over he said. Response immediately after the Tanker s grounding was handled by Alyeska pipeline scrvicetco., an Industry consortium that manages the trans Alaska Oil pipeline and Valdez Marine terminal. Mccall said the use of Oil dispersing chemicals was discussed soon after the Accident occurred Early inc morning of Good Friday. Tests of dispersant Tod Lermine i hair effectiveness were conducted Laic that afternoon or Early in the evening he said add ing that he docs not believe there was an unreason Able delay in carrying Oul those Icsis. It took time for the dispersant spraying equip ment to arrive at the terminal Mccall said and when it did arrive there were repairs or add on equipment to Deal with. Mccall also told investigators that Alyeska did not have enough dispersant in Stock to effectively handle the damage caused by the spill. In inc test there appeared to be no positive effect from the dispersant he said possibly be cause of the thickness of Oil on the water. Magnuson Magnuson sex senator Dies at 84 Seattle a former sen. Warren g. Magnuson a skilled political insider who served 44 years in Congress died saturday morning at his Home in Seattle a family Friend said. Hews 84. Grit Chen Bakitis acting As a family spokeswoman said mag Nuson died of congestive heart failure caused by complications from his diabetes. Magnuson a demo crat was elected to the House in 1936 and won the first of his six Senate terms in 1944. He eventually Rose to the chairmanship of the appropriations com Mittee before being Defeated by Republican Slade Gorton in 1980. Known to his constituents As Maggie Magnuson had a shuffling gait and a rumpled appearance and his frequent Malaprop isms seemed to conflict with his reputation As a consummate Senate insider. As chairman of the appropriations committee Magnuson was never shy about sending billions Back Home for everything from military installations to can cer research centers. Former vice president Walter Mondale joked in 1980 that Magnuson divided Federal Money so so half for Washington state and half for the rest of the  we used to sit in the cloakroom and smoke cigars and Chat Magnuson said during a visit to washing ton after his retirement. In my Day a fellow did t introduce a Bill of major importance without the com Mittee chairman s  now everything is Willy Nilly. There in t the discipline there in t the Courtesy there was when i was  Magnuson and the late sen. Henry Jackson also from Washington state were known As the Gold dust twins and together led a congressional delegation that during the 1960s and 1970s was known As one of the most influential on Capitol Hill. Magnuson played poker in the while House with president Franklin d. Roosevelt and president tru Man was a confidant of president Kennedy and recruited president Johnson As Best Man for his second marriage. He divided the Senate into show horses and workhorses and he was decidedly one of the latter. If you got the votes you Don t need a speech Magnuson once said. If you need a speech you Don t have the  his inability to pronounce names was legendary. He once called Avery Brundage or. 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