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By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Laurent Belsie

May 10, 1983

Six Gulf states came up with a plan for the huge oil slick flowing from damaged Iranian wells: a special boat would suck up the oil south of the war zone. Past cleanup efforts have been nipped in the bud because of the bitterness between Iran and Iraq.