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...Navy policy calls for rescuing anyone at sea whose boat is adrift or in danger of sinking. Thus the service is investigating reports from among 52 survivors of a boatload of 110 Vietnamese refugees who were given food and water but not taken on board by crewmen of the amphibious U.S. transport ship Dubuque in the South China Sea on June 9. The refugees claim that their 35-ft. wooden boat was disabled at the time and that many were near starvation...
...almost totally depleted of oxygen, known as dead zones, are proliferating. As many as 1 million fluke and flounder were killed earlier this summer when they became trapped in anoxic water in New Jersey's Raritan Bay. Another huge dead zone, 300 miles long and ten miles wide, is adrift in the Gulf of Mexico...
...contras, perhaps as soon as early August. Government newspapers and radio stations have begun a drum roll of reports proclaiming that "the people" are demanding action against the rebels. An all-out attack by Nicaragua's 70,000- strong army would catch the contras at their weakest. Cut adrift by their U.S. patrons and torn by internal feuding, the guerrillas barely resemble a credible fighting force. About 6,000 rebels remain in Honduras, where the government is increasingly eager to see them leave, or are camped along the border. Only some 1,500 troops have filtered back into Nicaragua toward...
...year ago, Governor Dukakis was just another Democratic minnow adrift in the broad sea of presidential politics. A year from now, President Dukakis may be completing his first 100 days in the White House. But for that to happen, he must begin to flesh out how he would use that period to be more than just the nation's Governor...
...starts and overblown promises, the new systems, called expert or knowledge-processing systems, have exploded onto the commercial scene in the U.S., Western Europe and Japan, which is also trying to develop AI technologies. "We have spent hundreds of billions of dollars developing computer power that has set us adrift in a sea of data," says Thomas P. Kehler, CEO of IntelliCorp, a California software company. The new systems promise to put that information to work...