2008 Woodie Awards
World News
Issue date: 11/21/02 Section: News Digest
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COMPOSTELA, Spain -- As a crippled tanker full of about 20 million gallons of gooey fuel oil split in two and sank two miles beneath the seething Atlantic's surface Tuesday, experts feared the worst:
Oil bubbling back to the surface that befouls Spanish and Portuguese shorelines, their fish and wildlife, and maybe even Mediterranean beaches.
Stormy conditions - which broke up the crippled tanker Prestige 150 miles off Spain's northwestern coast - along with the unusual thickness of the oil and extreme pressure on the ocean floor, threaten the worst oil spill in more than a decade, said the U.S. government's top oil spill response official.
Iraq agrees to abide by U.N. resolution
WASHINGTON -- With a U.S. gun to his head, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Wednesday accepted a U.N. demand to open his country to weapons inspections without conditions.
Iraq's U.N. ambassador delivered a rambling, angry nine-page letter to Secretary General Kofi Annan agreeing to abide by the tough inspection terms set last Friday when the U.N. Security Council voted 15-0 to order Iraq to submit to new inspections.
The letter was signed by Iraqi Foreign Minishter Naji Sabri, but he clearly was speaking for Saddam, who as dictator has total power.
The letter denounced the U.N. action as unjust, denied that Iraq has any weapons of mass destruction and attacked the United States and Great Britain, the co-sponsors of the resolution, as liars.
Four adults missing in Midwest mystery
CHICAGO -- Teams of investigators, volunteers, dogs and even the National Guard have been searching the fields and waters of Wisconsin and Minnesota for three male college students and a young woman, each of whom mysteriously disappeared within the last two weeks after a night of partying.
On Thursday, police said that despite intense efforts to find the four individuals, authorities still had no information on their whereabouts.
The cases, all involving people in their early 20s, are disturbing because they have occurred in a narrow time frame, the first disappearance was Oct. 30 and the most recent was Nov. 9, and within a 120 mile radius of Minneapolis.