Drifting tanker towed away from Washington coastline

Saturday, November 24, 2001

PORTLAND, Ore. -- After struggling for three days against 30-foot storm swells and winds of more than 50 mph, salvage workers succeeded Friday in attaching a rope to a drifting crude oil tanker and began towing it.

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