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...Philippine cargo ship Balsa 24 was plowing through the turbulent waters of the North Atlantic last week when it encountered a violent storm. Lashed by pelting rain and battered by 35-to-50-knot winds and 50-ft. waves, the vessel foundered 1,120 miles east of New York. Its 19-member crew frantically radioed an SOS, then clambered into a lifeboat...
Almost 15 hours passed before the first rescue ship -- a Panamanian & freighter, the Friasi -- could reach the scene. It was followed by the Scamp, a nuclear-powered Navy submarine, which managed to pull one sailor to safety. Two more ships, including an Israeli vessel, converged on the area, but were unable to save any of the remaining crew...
...looks a bit like a skinny dinghy with a spinnaker. But while sleek 12- meter racing yachts were battling the stormy seas off the western coast of Australia in the America's Cup trials these past weeks, a much more modest vessel was being launched in the calmer waters of a harbor in nearby Fremantle. The skipper of the miniature marvel is none other than Ben Lexcen, 50, the celebrated designer of Australia II, which won the America's Cup in 1983. Featuring a scaled-down version of Lexcen's revolutionary winged keel, the 14-ft.-long fiber-glass Mini...
...containers. We even had to remove the JAFFA markings on the oranges." Further, said the seaman, uniformed Israelis had already demanded that the name Morso be removed from the ship before its arrival in Eilat and replaced temporarily by Solar; the name was changed back to Morso as the vessel approached the Persian Gulf, reaching Iran around...
...Vanunu suddenly vanished in early October, under circumstances that are increasingly mysterious. His disappearance is thought to have involved the Israeli intelligence service, MOSSAD; he may have been lured by MOSSAD agents aboard a ship berthed on the Thames and later transferred to an Israeli navy vessel on the high seas. Other observers suggested last week that Vanunu's abduction was considerably messier and may have violated British law. Still others speculate that the Vanunu affair may have been part of a deliberate Israeli propaganda campaign aimed at impressing the Syrians with Jerusalem's nuclear capabilities...