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...Incan name for sun-god. Young Heyerdahl entertained a theory that Incan raftsmen might thus have freighted their civiliza tion to Polynesia. He failed to convince most fellow scholars that Peruvian-Polynesian cultural coincidences were more than just that. But by Aug. 7, when he cracked up on a coral reef 4,300 miles from Peru (and 250 miles east of Tahiti), Heyerdahl had proved indubitably that a balsa raft could cross the Pacific. He had also become a celebrity- one of those adventurers who stir the thin blood of the technological age with intimations of what the word hero...
...Coral and Malaria. Of course, Europe had long been crisscrossed by wandering medieval craftsmen like Wiligelmo and Gislebertus. But Dürer seems to have been the first great artist to act on the idea that response to different cultures is part of the creative process itself. His appetite for curios and marvels was enormous, and it filled his baggage with every imaginable sort of junk. Dürer once impetuously swapped a whole portfolio of engravings and woodcuts for "five snail shells, four silver and five copper medals, two dried fishes, a white coral, four reed arrows and a red coral...
Israelis call their southern seaport of Eilat "a big hole in the right place." Its clear, deep, coral-bottomed natural harbor easily accommodates big ships. Since the completion last year of a 42-in. pipeline that runs 160 miles from Eilat across the Negev to the Mediterranean port of Ashkelon, the big hole is ordinarily choked with tankers waiting to off-load oil. Last week one such ship became a special attraction for vacationers at seaside motels. While moving through the narrow strait of Babel Mandeb (Gate of Tears), which separates the Gulf of Aden...
Token Force. The attack on the Coral Sea brought into the open what up to now has only been whispered: that crude oil fed into the Trans-Israel Pipeline at Eilat-some 20 million tons is anticipated this year-comes not only from Iran but from Saudi Arabia and some other Arab states on the Persian Gulf as well. Arab oil is not carried by Israeli-flag ships, of course, but by vessels that are registered in third countries, like the Liberian-flag Coral Sea. Sailing orders are often doctored so that there is no record of some ships...
...Moscow not to move Soviet personnel stationed in Egypt across the canal into Sinai. Both sides in the Middle East still appear interested in an agreement. One difficulty, however, is that the Arab guerrillas are likely to try to scuttle any settlement through methods like the shelling of the Coral Sea. At week's end, the Israelis had not retaliated but, as Defense Minister Moshe Dayan said, "We won't sit with our hands folded...