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...June Peking dispatched two ships from Canton to pick up "victimized Chinese nationals" at Vietnamese ports. The ships, which were never allowed to dock, are being recalled to China?empty. Despite all the invective, both countries have agreed to resume discussions of their differences in Hanoi next week. Foreign observers, however, doubt that the low-level talks will do much to resolve what appear to be the real reasons for the neighborly conflict: Hanoi's anger at Chinese support for Viet Nam's hostile neighbor, Cambodia, and Peking's fear of expanding Soviet influence in Viet...
...swamps and marshes for real estate developments. The result: the once endangered species became an endangering one, venturing onto golf courses and into backyard swimming pools. Last year there were twelve unprovoked attacks by gators on humans. One victim, a man who had been cleaning weeds from his dock, died...
...inflict damage, even when they have the best of intentions. Biologists on Santa Cruz, one of the 13 major islands in the archipelago, were mystified recently when some of the iguanas they were studying stopped producing offspring. A little investigation provided the explanation: handouts from kindly tourists at a dock were drawing so many iguanas to the site that breeding territories were being broken...
...Crimson hurried over to dock and miraculously managed to empty the boat, keep the shell intact and get back in the water with two minutes to go before...
...service and its major suppliers have sunk to their lowest point in many decades. The Navy, in fact, has been slapped with claims demanding $2.7 billion in payment for cost overruns by the nation's major shipbuilders?General Dynamics' Electric Boat Division, Tenneco's Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., and the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries...