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...protecting animals. He took part in "Operation Gwamba," which in 1964 rescued some 10,000 animals from the reservoir area of a new dam in Surinam, worked to curtail the slaughter of baby seals in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, set up feeding programs for starving huskies near the Arctic Circle and aided animals that survived an earthquake in Peru, floods in Italy and a hurricane in Honduras. But Noah II, which is scheduled to last until Christmastime, is in financial trouble. Letters to nearly a thousand top U.S. corporations asking for contributions have produced little cash...
This seemed to be the score last week after Reykjavik handily won the third round-as it had the previous two -in the so-called Cod War, a 17-year-old dispute with London over the valuable fishing rights in the chilling Arctic waters off the Icelandic coast. At a hastily arranged meeting in "neutral" Oslo, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Crosland and Icelandic Foreign Minister Einar Agústsson signed a six-month agreement that could end what had become an increasingly acrimonious disagreement between the two NATO allies (they broke off diplomatic relations last February) and was even threatening...
...great pipeline snafu. Interior officials are blunt about the cause. As one told TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, "Somebody cheated. It's a big mess." Beyond the 28 welds known to be defective, Interior officials are concerned that another 1,750 might fall short of federal standards for the Arctic, where winter temperatures can drop...
...launches into an abusive harangue, the arctic blasts keep blowing, and the room grows tense. A woman breaks down. It is Wendy, yesterday's enlightenment-seeker with no problems. Hefty housewife now has her coat over her head and is bouncing in her chair. Finally she pops, moaning, screaming and shaking violently. Ron says: "How old are you now? And where are you? Don't think, just look." The woman says she is ten years old and with her parents. She screams that her mother hates her, always has, because she's jealous of her father...
Kissinger regards the Pentagon arguments as faulty. For one thing, the Backfire can reach the U.S. from Arctic bases without mid-air refueling only if it conserves fuel by flying at subsonic speeds. Asks a senior U.S. official: "Why would the Russians develop a supersonic airplane to fly subsonic missions...