Word: vessels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...activists' customized salvage tug Greenpeace shadowed the sub, the support ships Kittiwake and Grasp repeatedly rammed the vessel, punching a hole in her side just above the waterline. Meanwhile, sailors trained fire hoses on the Greenpeace, flooding her engines, while Navy SEAL frogmen cut the fuel lines of one of two antinuke motorboats trying to disrupt the test. "A terrible outrage . . . an unbridled act of aggression!" cried Greenpeace's executive director as the group prepared legal action against the Navy. Just | outside the launch area, the battle -- and the test-firing -- were monitored by a Soviet trawler bristling with electronic...
While this and earlier studies agree on the health benefits of regular, moderate exercise, no one is sure of the physiological mechanisms involved. It may be that exercise increases coronary blood flow, decreases clotting or both, which would limit the blood-vessel blockages that cause cardiovascular problems. And some scientists speculate that exercise increases bowel motility, a factor in avoiding colon cancer. Those questions may be answered in part by the next phase of the investigation, which is expected to include more than 40,000 people. Such speculations are literally academic, though. For the average man or woman, the message...
...also resorted to kidnaping of a sort, most famously during the 1985 midair interception of the Achille Lauro hijackers by fighter planes. In September 1987 FBI agents lured suspected terrorist Fawaz Younis into international waters off Cyprus, arrested him aboard a U.S. vessel and flew him to Andrews Air Force Base for eventual trial and imprisonment. For the most part, however, the U.S. has adopted a waiting posture, which critics charge has degenerated into a prescription for inaction...
...Coast Guard's commandant, Admiral Paul Yost Jr., has done little to clarify the pilotage issue. In June he declared in a speech at a federal maritime academy that Cousins was "fully qualified" to pilot the vessel. But in an interview with TIME, Yost hedged his statement by saying Cousins "was competent, but he was not technically qualified...
...aground, however, the Coast Guard says it had no trouble spotting the stricken tanker on radar because it presented a wider profile and was standing higher in water. Many mariners dismiss the Coast Guard's explanation. "That's a ridiculous contention because any way you turn this vessel, it's as big as a building," says Michael Chalos, a maritime attorney who represents Hazelwood. "She has a beam of 166 ft. and a height from the waterline of about 75 ft. when fully loaded. The Coast Guard is trying to cover up for the fact that they were not properly...