Word: boatfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already unhappy relations be tween the U.S. and Peru took another turn for the worse last week. The latest trouble was caused by the seizure of an American fishing boat. The boat - the fourth U.S. tuna clipper taken captive this year - was fined for having violated the 200-mile limit claimed for Peru's territorial waters (the U.S. recognizes only a 12-mile limit for fishing rights). In some exasperation, Administration officials in Washington leaked the news that the U.S. was suspending arms sales to Peru...
Actually, the sales had been suspended last February with the seizure of the first U.S. boat. Peru's Dictator General Juan Velasco Alvarado was informed privately that the Pelly amendment to the Foreign Military Sales Act of 1968 left Washington no alternative. For some reason, Velasco had neglected to inform his countrymen, and last week's disclosure from Washington brought a rush of questions in Lima. Velasco held a twelve-hour huddle with his Cabinet and produced a six point communiqué. If the ban on shipments is officially confirmed, it read, then the U.S. military missions currently...
...fishing-boat row distracted attention from the more serious dispute between the U.S. and Peru-the seven-month wrangle over oil. Just six days after overthrowing the government last October, Velasco and his junta confiscated most of the available assets of the International Petroleum Co., a subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey). This should have brought into force the Hickenlooper amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act, which would cancel all aid funds, but Washington held off because the matter was still in litigation, with I.P.C., backed on principle by the State Department, demanding just compensation. The Peruvians maintain that...
...remaining contestants in the first singlehanded, nonstop sailboat race around the world are trying to better the record of 312 days set last month by Britain's Robin Kriox-Johnston. A onetime big-game hunter and whisky smuggler named John Fairfax is rowing a 22-ft. boat 3,300 miles from the Canary Islands to Florida. Honors for freakish firsts, though, must go to Aleksander Wozniak, a Polish exile and former R.A.F. fighter pilot, who fashioned a pair of 3-ft.-long, canoe-shaped shoes out of wood and walked 33 miles down the Thames from Marlow to Westminster...
Harmon is one of only four sophomores to row in the first boat this spring. The other three were Moore, Rod Petersen, and Kim Kiley, Petersen was in the freshman heavyweights' top boat in 1968 but switched to the lights during the past fall. Tom Dryer, the J.V. stroke, and teammate Os Erikson are two other sophomores who switched to the lighter squad this year...