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Thursday, March 17, 1977

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I ft Long both Spills would be environmental nightmares Peaceful island examines proposed super port's impact By ANDREW H MALCOLM KOROR Palau An international consortium of oil banking and industrial interests led by a New Yorker is planning a oil storage and transshipping station for supertankers on this island in the United States Trust Territory of the Pacific The Palau port to be called Port Pacific would be the first in a proposed network of such 1 ate oil entrepots on thinly populated islands where the waters are deep and the opposition is light The piers storag...

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