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...Mediterranean yields a vessel sunk perhaps 3,400 years...
Relief agencies tried to rush food to the starving country by diverting grain shipments from other destinations. The World Food Program rerouted a freighter carrying 28,000 metric tons of grain to an Ethiopian port. Even so, the ship will not arrive until Dec. 12. Another vessel, carrying 10,000 metric tons of U.S. Government-donated grain to India, changed course and headed for the beleaguered country. In all, 80,000 metric tons of food were bound for Ethiopia last week. Yet even that was far from adequate. The Ethiopian government estimates that 1.2 million metric tons of grain will...
...Spokesman David Larner of the mood at the insurance association: "Jubilant would not be an exaggeration." Indeed, on confirming the second rescue, Lloyd's management ordered the famed "Lutine" bell rung twice, the insurers' traditional signal of a successful salvage, though normally of a more earthly vessel. The underwriters also awarded Allen and Gardner its silver medal of merit for services performed; only three others have been awarded since World...
...about 16 hours. It makes the trip back loaded with some 1,600 tons of cement. And the ship does it cheaply, carrying its high-bulk, low-cost cargo for less than the cost of sending it by either train or truck, which is, Kaldefoss explains, why the vessel is still working. Commercial traffic on the Erie Canal has all but disappeared; the Erie Navigation Co. of Erie, Pa., which owns and 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...
Among the prize finds: three elegant ceramic pots made between 3500 and 2500 B.C., one with incised designs, that were placed atop the legs of a buried body; a large vessel with an intricate scroll pattern, dated 3000 to 2000 B.C., that was used to inter a two-year-old child, and a plain cup found near by that might have contained food for the baby; and two iron spearheads with bronze sockets (to hold wooden handles), dated 800 to 400 B.C., which are among the oldest iron objects found in eastern Asia...