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Indeed, many tanker accidents are the result of human error, and there is real reason for concern over the uneven experience and training of tanker captains and crews (see box). What to do? The usual complaint is that worldwide shipping is so diffuse that effective regulation is impossible. As Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Warren Magnuson put it last week: "I don't see how you can have control when you have American-owned ships insured by the British, run by the Greeks, with Italian officers and a Chinese crew...
...tankers and other ships adopted by the London-based Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization. As for regulating foreign-flag vessels in U.S. waters, all the needed authority is included in the 1972 Ports and Waterways Safety Act. It gives the Coast Guard sweeping powers to set safety, equipment and crew-training standards for foreign vessels; the Coast Guard can inspect such vessels and order them away from U.S. ports if they judge them to be a safety problem...
...explications of bygone politics and economics that his Voyage is becalmed for long periods. Happily, the same does not hold true for the four-masted bark Neptune's Car. The steel-hulled vessel beats around the Horn with a cargo of smoldering coal. Its crew, as was customary, is a forecastle full of alcoholics, shanghaied by waterfront "crimps." Kidnaping of able-bodied seamen was a routine necessity, Hayden reports: wages were $1 a day and the hard-driving officers were licensed bullies who regularly committed mayhem and murder...
Embree is gone (to Harvard Law School), and so are Jiggets (to the Chicago Bears) and the rest of the high flyers mentioned above. After Northeastern's field events crew outscored the Crimson's in Saturday's lostt, coach Bill McCurdy and assistant Ed Stowell knew that they face a tough job of rebuilding the depleted flying circus...
...next test for the field events crew comes after exam period in the Greater Boston Championships--the event where they cleaned up everyone in sight last year...