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Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

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Mortimer Zuckerman
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Businessperson
Editor-In-Chief
Journalist
Media Proprietor
Publisher
Montreal
Quebec
Mortimer B. Zuckerman
Mortimer Benjamin Zuckerman
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