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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most effective way of freeing trapped dolphins from a net that is full and cinched shut at the bottom is for the ship laying the net to run in reverse, dragging the net and its finny contents into an elongated shape (see diagram). Crewmen in rubber rafts then drive the surface-swimming dolphins toward one end, and as the ship pulls the net, the dolphins spill out, leaving the tuna behind. Despite these efforts, an average of eight dolphins die during each netting, often at night, when freeing them is more difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A DEADLY ROUNDUP AT SEA | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

Some Pentagon officials theorize that the bomb may have been dropped by an attacker that was out of control. Three Navy pilots reported seeing one aircraft turn into a "fireball" and disappear into the ocean about ten miles offshore. The missing crewmen, who were presumed dead after a search yielded no signs of life, were Captain Fernando L. Ribas-Dominicci, 33, of Puerto Rico and Captain Paul F. Lorence, 31, of San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Dead of the Night | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...extremely nervous. By invading Iraq's Fao Peninsula last February, the Iranians established a menacing threat to Saudi Arabia and its equally vulnerable gulf neighbors. The danger was underscored last week when an Iranian helicopter gunship fired a missile into a Saudi oil tanker in gulf waters, leaving four crewmen missing and seven wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saudi Arabia Facing a Double-Barreled Gun | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

Admiral William Crowe, chairman of the JointChiefs of Staff, said the search for the twomissing crewmen had been called off after Navyplanes and ships failed to find any trace of themor their plane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S.: Soviet Inaction Led to Libyan Raid | 4/17/1986 | See Source »

Throughout the Middle East, it was a bad week for the forces of moderation. In Beirut, four French television crewmen were kidnaped on Saturday by unknown gunmen. Earlier, the shadowy Islamic Jihad, believed to be the umbrella organization that includes Shi'ite Fundamentalist groups like the Iranian-backed Hizballah (Party of God), announced that it had killed French Researcher Michel Seurat, 37, one of the four other Frenchmen kidnaped in the Lebanese capital during the past two years. Six Americans and one Briton are still missing. The reasons for the alleged murder: retaliation against the French for their pro-Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Grief and Anger in Nablus | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

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