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Mother Teresa comforts a young victim of the Bhopal, India, gas-leak disaster on Dec. 11, 1984. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

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At a Washington press conference Tuesday, former Beatle Paul McCartney declined to opine on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. "I'm not a politician," he noted.

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From left, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division Ignacia Moreno, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division Tony West and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi Don Burkhalter announce that the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, in New Orleans, Tuesday, June 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber)

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Christopher Pulaski with the National Wildlife Federation examines oil floating on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana. (AP)

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Coast Guard chief Adm. Thad W. Allen said he is "satisfied" with the coordination that's taking place between the government and BP.

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Associated Press photographs Workers shovel oil Monday from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill off Fourchon Beach in Port Fourchon, La., as the finger pointing continues over the continuing spillage.

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In this Dec. 11, 2008, file photo, Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism Commission Chair, former Florida Sen. Bob Graham, left, listens as Vice Chair, former Missouri Sen. Jim Talent testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. President Barack Obama announced Saturday, May 22, 2010, that Graham and former EPA Administrator William K. Reilly will lead a presidential commission investigating the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

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A Lebanese army helicopter flies past the USS Ramage on Tuesday as search efforts continue following the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane into the sea off Beirut. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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** FILE ** An Oklahoma City fireman walks near explosion-damaged cars on the north side of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City after the bombing on April 19, 1995. More than 600 people were injured in the attack and 168 people were killed. (AP Photo/Daily Oklahoman, Jim Argo, File)

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**FILE ** Passengers await a Red Line train at Metro's Metro Center station in Washington. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg) **FILE**

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** FILE ** An AirTran Airways Boeing 737 takes off from Logan International Airport in Boston in January 2007. AirTran was among the top three airlines for on-time performance in October 2010. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

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** FILE ** In this July 30, 2009, file photo, patients wait in the emergency room at Cook County Hospital, one of Chicago's safety net hospitals. A private trade group said Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, its measure of the U.S. service sector grew in September for the first time in 13 months. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty, file)

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** FILE ** Passengers fill the terminal after a security breach shut down Terminal C at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., on Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010. Authorities were searching for a man who walked through a screening checkpoint exit into the secure side of a terminal Sunday night. Flights were grounded and passengers were rescreened, an air safety official said. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)

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Deborah A.P. Hersman, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, presides over a hearing in Washington on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, to discuss the Feb. 12, 2009, crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 near Buffalo-Niagara International Airport in New York. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

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** FILE ** The D.C. National Guard goes on a helicopter rescue-and-recovery mission in New Orleans on Sept. 11, 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. (Astrid Riecken/The Washington Times )

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People celebrate Mass under a tent next to an earthquake destroyed home in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, March 21, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, killing and injuring thousands and leaving more than a million people living in makeshift camps. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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Troy Newman, left, president of Operation Rescue, prays during a memorial for abortion deaths at Operation Rescue's headquarters Saturday, June 20, 2009, in Wichita, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) ** FILE **

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** FILE ** A helicopter circles near the air traffic control tower of Schiphol Airport near Amsterdam on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Evert Elzinga)

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** FILE ** A Staten Island ferry docks at the Manhattan terminal in New York on Sunday, May 9, 2010. The Staten Island ferry that malfunctioned and smashed into a pier, tossing passengers to the deck, has been idled while federal and local officials try to figure out what went wrong. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)