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...After the Mayaguez, a small U.S. merchant ship headed for Thailand, was seized by a Cambodian gunboat, President Ford ordered a military rescue by 1,100 Marines. All 39 Mayaguez crewmen were freed, but at the cost of 41 U.S. servicemen killed and 50 wounded...
From the patio of the pale stucco house, a Panamanian gunboat can be seen cruising the richly blue-green waters. Guards armed with pistols and submachine guns patrol the driveway, and a German shepherd attack dog trots around the unfenced grounds. Perched on a cliff 50 yds. from the bay, the house itself is a modest dwelling, consisting of only six rooms. But for the latest occupant of the building, owned by former Panamanian Ambassador to the U.S. Gabriel Lewis Galindo, it is a much needed haven. "Such surroundings, such hospitality, are not going to be easy to match," said...
...quits. Early one morning, the anti-whalers' mother ship, Rainbow Warrior* slipped out of Reykjavik in hopes of making it to the whaling grounds. Said McTaggart: "I think we've been so successful they will have to arrest us." Not quite. During the first attempt, an Icelandic gunboat simply signaled them back just a few miles beyond the harbor entrance. But when the Rainbow Warrior tried to sneak out again, both ship and protesters were detained. After McTaggart pledged to call off further interference, at least for the moment, the protesters' ship sailed out of Reykjavik...
...confusion that followed Penelope left the apartment, after having filled all the cats' dishes with food. The Palestinians believe that she drove to the Christian port of Jounieh and later was spirited out of Lebanon on an Israeli gunboat. Her car, which also had been rented from the Lenacar agency, was still missing at week's end, but police found Kolberg s rented Simca abandoned beside the seashore at Mameltein, five miles from Jounieh. It contained no clues...
...mind and ordered the ships to remain on station in the South China Sea. Seldom have the limits of American power or the lack of a strong policy been so obvious. In the acid phrase of Conservative Columnist William Safire, the whole exercise was "the first example of no-gunboat gunboat diplomacy: we showed a naked flagpole...