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Miraculously, 409 of the 543 passengers bound for Dover from Zeebrugge were saved. As several investigations into the still mysterious causes of the disaster got under way, Britain's Prince Charles toured the scene and thanked Belgian authorities for the remarkably well-organized rescue efforts that saved so many lives. Said he: "Without that, I think it would have been a much worse tragedy...
Dozens of ambulances, their blue lights flashing, lined up at the quays nearest the ferry, waiting for survivors to be pulled out. The injured were transported to nearby hospitals, some in critical condition. There they were consoled by Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens, Belgian King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola and, on Saturday, by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who helicoptered to Zeebrugge. Said she: "The rescue effort was highly professional, skillful and very, very courageous...
...embarrassing case involves neutral Sweden, which forbids the sale of its arms to countries at war. The Swedish arms firm Bofors was reported last year by local newspapers to have sold several hundred Robot 70 portable ground-to-air missiles to Iran between 1983 and 1985. Last month the Belgian daily Le Soir reported that Swedish customs officials had sent a bulky dossier to their counterparts in Brussels. The file contained details of the shipment of Swedish war materiel destined for Iran through the Belgian port of Zeebrugge. Last week Martin Ardbo, the managing director of Bofors weapons division, abruptly...
Have you heard? There's a Belgian beer that makes you impotent, the Chinese once caught President Nixon pocketing a priceless teacup, and dim-witted ecologists are renting airplanes to drop poisonous snakes on the forests of France...
Among the other businesses that have been threatened by rumors are Proctor & Gamble (the notion that the company's moon-and-stars symbol was related to Satanism), a Belgian beer that had to ride out a phony report that it caused impotence, and France's margarine industry, the victim of gossip that the lower-price spread was full of dangerous contaminants. Kapferer thinks French housewives got behind the margarine rumor as an excuse to keep buying butter. One margarine company fought back with an ad slogan describing the story as the "rumor that costs you dearly...