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While the architects of U.S. foreign policy struggled to shape their strategy, the widows and families of the slain Stark crewmen struggled to put the tragedy behind them. Last week the remains of 35 of the 37 dead sailors arrived at Delaware's Dover Air Force Base. Under a bruised sky, pallbearers carried the flag-draped coffins from the belly of a cargo plane and into a concrete hangar. After a brief memorial service marked by quiet sobs, the coffins were shipped to grave sites in small towns such as Greeleyville, S.C., and Fitchburg, Mass., all far, far away from...
...ferry capsized so suddenly that the crew did not even have time to send out an SOS. Crewmen from a nearby dredging tug sounded the alarm, then scrambled aboard the upturned starboard side of the disabled Herald. They hacked holes through the double-glazed porthole windows and began lowering ropes to pull passengers out of the maze of inner compartments, which were quickly filling with ice-cold sea water. A flotilla of small boats soon surrounded the upended ship, and seamen searched for passengers who had been hurled into the water from open upper decks. Susan Hames of Coventry...
...most effective way of freeing trapped dolphins from a net that is full and cinched shut at the bottom is for the ship laying the net to run in reverse, dragging the net and its finny contents into an elongated shape (see diagram). Crewmen in rubber rafts then drive the surface-swimming dolphins toward one end, and as the ship pulls the net, the dolphins spill out, leaving the tuna behind. Despite these efforts, an average of eight dolphins die during each netting, often at night, when freeing them is more difficult...
Some Pentagon officials theorize that the bomb may have been dropped by an attacker that was out of control. Three Navy pilots reported seeing one aircraft turn into a "fireball" and disappear into the ocean about ten miles offshore. The missing crewmen, who were presumed dead after a search yielded no signs of life, were Captain Fernando L. Ribas-Dominicci, 33, of Puerto Rico and Captain Paul F. Lorence, 31, of San Francisco...
...extremely nervous. By invading Iraq's Fao Peninsula last February, the Iranians established a menacing threat to Saudi Arabia and its equally vulnerable gulf neighbors. The danger was underscored last week when an Iranian helicopter gunship fired a missile into a Saudi oil tanker in gulf waters, leaving four crewmen missing and seven wounded...