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...deed also provides that the Cup is forfeit if the challenge is not met in ten months. After a judge confirmed these conditions two weeks ago, Sail America's Thomas Ehman complained, "Fay is an opportunist who sees the chance to take a billion-dollar industry back to Auckland." Said San Diego Mayor Maureen O'Connor: "The ruling is un-American...
Racial conflict was also behind an attempted skyjacking in Fiji last week. An Indian airport worker, Amzad Ali, took over an Air New Zealand 747 that was making a stopover between Tokyo and Auckland, New Zealand. Armed with dynamite and a knife, he threatened to blow up the aircraft unless all ousted government leaders were released. Ali allowed the 105 passengers and 23 crew members to disembark but held captive the captain, the first officer and the | flight engineer. After six tense hours, the flight engineer ended the siege by hitting the hijacker over the head with a bottle...
...years has been covert mayhem committed by barbouzes, shadowy secret government agents with false beards or other disguises. The gem of these was surely the Greenpeace affair of 1985, in which two teams of French secret service frogmen blew up a trawler belonging to the environmental organization Greenpeace in Auckland harbor. The resulting international uproar shook Francois Mitterrand's Socialist government and forced the sacking of its intelligence chief and the resignation of its Defense Minister. Unlike Iranscam, however, that was the extent of it. Parliament never pursued it further. Indeed, the two French agents jailed by New Zealand until...
...Zealand leads the betting as favorite challenger. In Auckland, supporters are distributing maps of the proposed 1990 racing course, and Cup fever has reportedly driven up the price of local shoreline property by 30%. New Zealand has done equally well in both light and heavy weather. The key to the boat's success is its fiber-glass hull, which helps eliminate pitching in the Fremantle chop. The Kiwi crew improves with each race. "A month ago we might have said we were scoring 90 out of 100," says confident Skipper Chris Dickson, 25. "Now I think there's 110 points...
There may be rough going ahead for the Auckland challenge. Back in October, several skippers including Connor and Blackaller complained that fiber glass might be an illegal material. The rules state that hulls must be of equal weight and thickness across their entire surface. The Kiwis successfully defended the construction by pointing out that Lloyd's of London had supervised every stage of construction in accordance with the rules...