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Oil spreads

Tuesday 08 December 1992 00:02 GMT
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LA CORUNA (Reuter) - Salvage teams watched helplessly as a black tide of oil from the holed Greek tanker Aegean Sea spread along Spain's northwestern coast, smothering sea birds and contaminating fishing grounds. 'There's a tremendous storm blowing and we can't do anything until it calms down,' a local government spokesman said.

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