Secret History of USA 1989
On March 24, 1989 making its way outward from the port of Valdez, the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on the underwater shoal Bligh Reef, spilling crude oil into Prince William Sound, a 12,400-square-mile channel located in the Gulf of Alaska. Oil leaked out at 20,000 gallons per hour. Within a day, 270,000 barrels had leaked, producing a slick 8 miles long and 4 miles wide. Altogether, the ship spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil, making it the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
June 3, 1989 - Chinese authorities ordered soldiers to attack a peaceful crowd of some 100,000 student demonstrators in Beijing's central Tiananmen Square killing hundreds, wounding thousands and arresting thousands more.
In December 1989 after he was exposed as having secretly violated his own announced sanctions against China over the Tiananmen massacre, Bush emphasized that ''I think we were positioned in the forefront of human rights.''
...the London Financial Times had a long story, a big front page story, that they had unearthed jointly with ABC News, in which they described how in November 1989 Bush and Baker had intervened strenuously to ensure that a billion dollars in credits were given to Saddam Hussein...The Commerce Department, the Treasury Department and the Export Import Bank, which guarentees credits, were all opposed.
Although the Kerry Commission's findings on the U.S.-Contra drug- trafficking link caused little outrage in the U.S. Congress, a Costa Rican congressional committee concluded that the contra-resupply network, operating in Costa Rica and coordinated by North from the White House, doubled as a drug smuggling operation. That finding prompted Oscar Arias Sanchez to bar North and his gang--Poindexter, Secord, Joseph Fernandez and former U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs--from ever again setting foot in Costa Rica.
The Associated Press reported this action in a lengthy press wire (7/22/90), but according to ''Extra'' (the Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting newsletter), the ''New York Times'' and all three national networks--perhaps following Congress's example of complacency--failed to carry the story.
On March 24, 1989 making its way outward from the port of Valdez, the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on the underwater shoal Bligh Reef, spilling crude oil into Prince William Sound, a 12,400-square-mile channel located in the Gulf of Alaska. Oil leaked out at 20,000 gallons per hour. Within a day, 270,000 barrels had leaked, producing a slick 8 miles long and 4 miles wide. Altogether, the ship spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil, making it the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
June 3, 1989 - Chinese authorities ordered soldiers to attack a peaceful crowd of some 100,000 student demonstrators in Beijing's central Tiananmen Square killing hundreds, wounding thousands and arresting thousands more.
In December 1989 after he was exposed as having secretly violated his own announced sanctions against China over the Tiananmen massacre, Bush emphasized that ''I think we were positioned in the forefront of human rights.''
...the London Financial Times had a long story, a big front page story, that they had unearthed jointly with ABC News, in which they described how in November 1989 Bush and Baker had intervened strenuously to ensure that a billion dollars in credits were given to Saddam Hussein...The Commerce Department, the Treasury Department and the Export Import Bank, which guarentees credits, were all opposed.
Although the Kerry Commission's findings on the U.S.-Contra drug- trafficking link caused little outrage in the U.S. Congress, a Costa Rican congressional committee concluded that the contra-resupply network, operating in Costa Rica and coordinated by North from the White House, doubled as a drug smuggling operation. That finding prompted Oscar Arias Sanchez to bar North and his gang--Poindexter, Secord, Joseph Fernandez and former U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs--from ever again setting foot in Costa Rica.
The Associated Press reported this action in a lengthy press wire (7/22/90), but according to ''Extra'' (the Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting newsletter), the ''New York Times'' and all three national networks--perhaps following Congress's example of complacency--failed to carry the story.
