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...Club via Milton Academy, and since graduating with a degree in economics, has gone on to make money in a variety of ways. He is president of West India Shipping Co., a New York-based firm, and has headed States Marine Lines, which owns and operates a fleet of cargo ships. He also serves on the boards of Corning Glass Works, Chase International Investment and several other companies...
...gulf. So far, half a dozen are known to have been damaged. None has yet been destroyed, though the Saudi supertanker Al Ahood has been ablaze since it was struck by Iraqi missiles two weeks ago. But on Saturday the Iraqis struck and sank a Greek-owned cargo vessel bound for Iran. Iraq hopes that by threatening tanker traffic, it can prevent Iran from financing its war effort with oil revenues. Iraq lost a large share of its oil production to Iranian bombing raids shortly after it invaded Iran in 1980. While Iran is probably incapable of closing the Strait...
...when a Kuwaiti-owned tanker of medium size, the Umm Casbah, was hit by rockets after leaving the Kuwaiti port of Mina al-Ahmadi. The Britain-bound ship was only slightly damaged, and after an emergency stop at Bahrain it sailed on toward the Strait of Hormuz with its cargo of fuel oil. The same evening, Iraq declared that it had not fired on gulf shipping for four days. If true, it could only mean that Iran had joined the tanker war at last...
...port of Ras Tanura and was within Saudi coastal waters when it was hit by rockets. Again the Iranians were blamed. After a day's respite, two more ships were reported hit on Friday, this time by Iraq, and on Saturday came the sinking of the Greek-owned cargo vessel by an Iraqi missile...
...thigh. In Elaine, Wash., U.S. officers arrested two travelers who had crossed the Canadian border with four gyrfalcons concealed in the wheel well of their car trunk. To make matters even more complex, drug smugglers have entered the wildlife export game. Officials are investigating one report that a cargo of 80 parrots sent from Bolivia to The Netherlands included up to two dozen dead birds that were stuffed with cocaine. One group of South American narcotics dealers is believed to have coated outgoing crocodile skins with pure cocaine. The smugglers assured port inspectors that the powder was a preservative, then...