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...command to the New York State department of transportation dock and eases it slowly, stern-first, out into the basin. Then, his craft clear, Kaldefoss settles himself behind the huge, spoked steering wheel that dominates the Peckinpaugh's pilothouse and steers for the lock leading from the harbor to the Erie Canal, a 338-mile-long liquid highway that runs from Buffalo, on Lake Erie, all the way east to Albany on the Hudson River. "Well," says Kaldefoss in a voice still heavy with the cadences of his native Norway, "here we go again...
...operates the Peckinpaugh, is one of the last shippers still using the water route across New York. But the Peckinpaugh and its eight-man crew remain and, more important, pay their way. "This isn't an exhibit in a museum," says Kaldefoss as the gates of the harbor lock swing open to receive him and his ship. "This is a real working boat...
...explicit. He preferred the way Ernst Lubitsch had handled the subject, by hint and suggestion-the hand of a bride dropping her nightgown outside the bridal-chamber door, then the door closing, leaving the rest to imagination. This conversation seemed pure entertainment. But Ceylon was important: it holds the harbor of Trincomalee that we want to use in case of war. Madame Jayewardene left, swathed in a friendship that might be essential to policy...
...Appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations, was a sharp critic of Reagan's Central America policies. Bentley, a former chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission, won mainly on a local issue: she claimed that Long had cost the area thousands of jobs by opposing the dredging of Baltimore harbor. Long had argued that the project would involve the disposal of wastes in an environmentally unsound manner...
...country is, quite simply, opposed to justice and liberation in Central America. The mining of the harbor, the CIA manual and the contra funding hurt American prestige and are ineffectual, as liberals claim. The point they miss is that all of these efforts, like Walter F. Mondale's proposed quarantine, are aimed at destroying a government that overthrew a U.S.-sponsored dictatorship which repressed its poverty stricken citizens...