Word: cargoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soprano Eva Marton as Princess Turandot, Tenor Placido Domingo as Calaf, her suitor, and the other principals, there are 286 singers and supernumeraries. By comparison, Zeffirelli's Boheme at its most gargantuan fielded a cast of merely 280. Much of the Turandot scenery was shipped from Italy in eleven cargo containers, each 40 ft. long. There are 300 costumes, and the headgear alone uses 44 lbs. of pearls, golf balls, chandelier crystals, Ping-Pong balls, espresso coffee filters and rosary beads. Depending on one's perspective, the production is a monument to either glorious or wretched excess...
West Germany was alerted on Feb. 9 to Gretl's illicit actions by members of the national seamen's union. The Bonn government immediately demanded that the ship put in at the nearest port of the twelve-member European Community. Not eager to have its cargo confiscated, Gretl headed back to off-load in Setubal...
...Anxious to prop up its shaky , domestic arms industry, Portugal has lifted all strictures against arms sales to Iran or its enemy Iraq. Insisting that Gretl's shipment was legal and should be delivered to Iran, the Lisbon government refused to let Gretl's crew dump its high-explosive cargo back on Portuguese docks. Ever since, the ship and its hapless crew have been condemned to their Iberian shuttle, at a cost of roughly $10,000 a day, while the West German shipper, the Danish charterer and the governments involved try to untangle the mess...
Portuguese newspapers have since claimed that Spain's Socialist government has countenanced the delivery of 175,000 tons of war materiel to Iran. The cargo was sent by Spain through Portugal after Madrid made direct shipments to Iran illegal in September 1986. Lisbon claims the Spaniards must have known what was going on, as many of the munitions shipped falsely to Portugal could not have been used in Portuguese weapons. Portugal has made a protest to Madrid. In addition, the respected Madrid daily El Pais has charged the Spanish government with selling $280 million of ammunition and military equipment...
...neighbor Libya are not the best. Just last month Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said he would shake the hand of Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi only if it were "not booby-trapped." Last week relations got worse when five Libyan air-force men flew their American-built C-130 military cargo plane to Abu Simbel in southern Egypt and requested political asylum...