Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...safe havens. Harbor police in Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysian ports sometimes sharply discourage boatloads of hungry and thirsty Vietnamese, who then set sail again to virtually certain death at sea. Last week the arrest of six Thai policemen pointed to the widespread mistreatment of the 2,000 boat people who have taken refuge in Thailand. The policemen were charged with looting and gang-raping about 30 Vietnamese in a fishing boat outside the coastal town of Nakhon Si Thammarat last month...
...Saigon market) to put a family of six on a fishing junk with 150 other people. When the ships near the Thai coast, Thai naval patrols sometimes climb aboard and rob the refugees of their remaining money and belongings. At least 1,000 boat people from Viet Nam are currently living in abject squalor on a stretch of beach in Songkhla, near the Malaysian border. These refugees have thus far survived on the 25? a day each receives from the U.N. and on food donated by the Vietnamese wife of the Dutch ambassador in Bangkok...
Meanwhile, injuries continued to riddle the Crimson eight on the eve of a two-and-a-half-mile encounter with Navy (June 3) at Annapolis. A physically exhausted (from the arduous Yale race practices) Harvard boat, which had best Navy by 12 seconds earlier in the campaign over a 2000-meter (1.3 mile) layout, lost by six ticks to the Middies...
...disconsolate Gregoire and angry coach Johnson claimed that the referee should have warned the boat about the buoy and wanted the race re-run. But the ref, Robert Morey (a former Yale Olympian rower) ruled that both squads were instructed about the buoy in advance, and vetoed the proposal...
...agony in a moderate headwind to cover the unusually slow course, but Harvard was not to be denied its revenge. Parker would say afterwards that his outsized team (Yale averaged 10 pounds more per man) won on courage and raw determination, giving him "by far the finest effort any boat ever made for me. They guys rowed a gutsy race all the way," Paker said...