Environment Turkey

Accidents happen. One recent night it was an Egyptian freighter whose bow carved into the coast road. Last year it was a ship that sank with a load of 17,000 sheep, whose ghostly, bloated carcasses floated up to the surface for months. But it is the prospect of tankers shipping out millions of tons of crude oil pumped from fields under development in Russia and Central Asia that really frightens shipowners and officials involved with the 1,350 ships per day that use the Bosporus strait.

Accidents happen. One recent night it was an Egyptian freighter whose bow carved into the coast road. Last year it was a ship that sank with a load of 17,000 sheep, whose ghostly, bloated carcasses floated up to the surface for months. But it is the prospect of tankers shipping out millions of tons of crude oil pumped from fields under development in Russia and Central Asia that really frightens shipowners and officials involved with the 1,350 ships per day that use the Bosporus strait.

Ray King was traveling a state highway not too far from this small town in western South Carolina recently when he was forced to stop abruptly. There, strutting across the road with all the majesty of a prince at his coronation, was a wild turkey about the size of a small child. "I eased up a little bit so I could watch him disappear into the woods," said King, a professor at Erskine Theological Seminary here. "And what struck me is that old fellow's got dignity.

Ray King was traveling a state highway not too far from this small town in western South Carolina recently when he was forced to stop abruptly. There, strutting across the road with all the majesty of a prince at his coronation, was a wild turkey about the size of a small child. "I eased up a little bit so I could watch him disappear into the woods," said King, a professor at Erskine Theological Seminary here. "And what struck me is that old fellow's got dignity.

Governments in Western Europe issued new public warnings Sunday about radioactive fallout from the Soviet nuclear disaster, and some of Moscow's own allies also ordered precautions. But Swedish government experts said the worst effects of the Soviet disaster have passed and criticized some of the safety measures adopted in Western Europe as overreaction. Gunnar Bengtsson, the head of Sweden's Radiological Protection Board told a news conference: "The emergency is over.