Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They had reached safe harbor on a sail and a prayer. In the past 21 months alone, more than 40,000 Vietnamese boat people pitched their way across the South China Sea to Hong Kong, mostly in rickety, open vessels. Last week 51 of them -- eight men, 17 women and 26 children -- learned they had risked their lives for nothing. Awakened at 3 a.m. at the Phoenix House refugee detention center in Kowloon, they were asked to gather their belongings, then herded into trucks by government personnel, some equipped with batons and shields. From there they were taken...
Enveloped in boredom and ennui, a group of middle class lovers and friends sail to the Southern Mediterranean islands for a holiday. Without warning, one of them, Anna, disappears. The group searches the area desperately trying to recover their lost friend. Antonioni deftly exposes hidden motivations and repressed desires in his characters as the group inevitably disintegrates...
...back on that s.o.b. again. No matter how much they shore it up, there is no way to make it safe." Pier 45, the city's main fishing pier, was closed because inspectors found deep fissures running the length of the pier floor. With no alternative pier to sail from, the 150-boat commercial-fishing fleet has been idled just as the herring and Dungeness crab season was about to open. Other damage ranged from cracks in the paving of the main runway at Oakland International Airport to the rotting of 125,000 crates of strawberries at Watsonville...
...consignment for resale in Europe, but Egypt balked at allowing the sheep through the Suez Canal and escorted the ship out of Egyptian waters. Last week the firm posted a $250,000 guarantee that no sheep or carcasses would be dumped in the canal, and the ship set sail for Italy. That seems like a happy ending, except possibly from the point of view of the sheep...
...Yamamoto's strike force of six aircraft carriers, two battleships and a host of cruisers, destroyers and submarines would set sail from Japan for the Kuriles, then deep into the Pacific toward Hawaii. Shortly after 6 a.m. on Dec. 7, dozens of Japanese Zeros would take off from the carriers, head south and within 90 minutes sight the coast of Oahu -- and Pearl Harbor. Japan, its fortunes yoked with Germany's, was launched on the road to double suicide...