-THE PLAIN DEALER, MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1989 'I am not hope, says HONOLULU (AP) Imelda Marcos, faced with the prospect of standing trial alone on racketeering charges, describes her life these days as a "comic tragedy." But she remains optimistic that "someone will decide what's right and we will go home." In. some respects, the former Philippines first lady's problems would rival the plot of any soap opera: Her husband is serious ill; her children are scattered across the world; her assets are frozen; loyal employees face deportation; her mother-in-law lies for nearly a year; she cannot go home. "The problems just overlap, one after another," Mrs. Marcos said in a recent interview. "But now, Ferdinand is alive.
I am not in jail. So, there is hope. Mrs. Marcos said those who might accuse her of creating her in SO Imelda own problems do not understand her cultural background, her husband or the country he ruled for 20 years. "I grew up around everything American: American food, American music USA, red, white and blue.
The way learned the song it was 'God Bless the We were your only colony," she said. U.S. rule, which began during the Spanish-American War of 1898, continued until 1946. She disagrees vehemently with the U.S. government's version of the Marcoses' exile to Hawaii in 1986 and the subsequent charges of stealing more than $100 million from the Philippine government and stashing it in the United States.
Marcos, who has been in a hospital since Jan. 15 but recently was removed from the intensive care Exxon cleanup plan scrutinized by U.S., Alaska VALDEZ, Alaska (AP) State and federal officials yesterday examined Exxon's plan to clean hundreds of miles of shoreline and an environmentally risky steam-cleaning method was tested on rocks blackened by America's worst oil spill. Oil from the 10.1 million-gallon spill, mostly in the form of tar balls and mousse-like foam, threatened Homer and other ports on fish-rich Cook Inlet. Boats from Kodiak, the nation's No. 1 fishing port, were forced to avoid part of a herring grounds closed late Saturday due to oil nearby.
State wildlife biologist Dave Prokopowich said he believed no potentially tainted fish were taken in the closed area, at the northern tip of the Kodiak Islands. "They (fishermen) seemed to have stayed away from those areas where they feared there might be contamination," Prokopowich said. With winds mainly from the south, there was no sign of oil advancing toward Kodiak and rich crab waters nearby, said Coast Guard Lt. Jim Madden. Homer residents complained of delays in placing log booms they have built to protect their town.
Exxon officials say the booms are being stockpiled at nearby Port Graham to make them easier to deploy when the oil strikes. "People here in Homer are being jerked around," said Lee McCabe, a resident who was building booms. "If the fishermen in this town fished like Exxon deploys boom, you'd never see a fish on the dock." Exxon-paid workers tested cleanup methods on blackened rocks at Block Island, including high-pressure, hot-water sprayers. The company has about 200 of the sprayers, but they have not been used previously with salt water. Cold-water techniques, even those using high pressure, have little impact on microorganisms and small marine life.
But the jets of high-pressure steam upend rocks, strip away sand and gravel and kill beach life. Scientists say it takes up to two years for life to return to the sterilized shore. Adm. Paul Yost, the Coast Guard commandant sent by President Bush to hasten the operations, said he believed the steam method is the only one that can cleanse the sound's shoreline. 'If the fishermen in this town fished like Exxon deploys boom, you'd never see a fish on the Lee McCabe, Homer resident Yost said Saturday that it might take three weeks to get Exxon's cleanup plan completely under way.
"It appears to be a piece of work that's well thought out, scientifically and operationally, and I'm very encouraged," Yost said, adding that he. and his advisers would meet today with Exxon officials in Valdez. They planned to comment on specifics of the plan afterward. "I wish it was two or three weeks ago," said Dennis Kelso, Alaska's environmental chief. Kelso, who has accused Exxon of dragging its feet after the wreck of the tanker Exxon Valdez on March 24, indicated he would scrutinize the plan over the weekend and brief Gov.
Steve Cowper on it before discussing it in public. Exxon spokesman Don Cornett said the company would not discuss its plan until after Yost had fully reviewed it. Efforts to contain the oil at sea have been largely ineffective. Exxon, the Coast Guard and the oil pipeline consortium Alyeska all have been accused of moving too slowly in the face of a staggering logistical task. Elsewhere Saturday, state wildlife and environmental officials in a Coast Guard helicopter searched the coast of remote Katmai National Park, but were unable to confirm National Park Service reports of oil on shore, said Coast Guard Lt.
Jim Madden. Even if no oil washes up, rangers fear the tainted carcasses of sea mammals and birds killed by the spill will be eaten by bears foraging on the beach. radio reported. The hangings brought the number of executions to 388 since Jan. 21.
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