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...huge webs of strong nylon mesh, known as drift nets, can cover a slice of ocean up to 40 miles wide and 40 ft. deep. In North Pacific waters, fishermen from Japan, South Korea and Taiwan routinely let the nets float for as long as nine hours at night. They are intended to catch squid, but they also scoop up sea turtles, porpoises, seals, birds and various kinds of fish. Environmentalists call them killer nets and accuse those who use them of "strip-mining" the ocean...
...insufficiently stringent and called for revisions. Last week Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher told the State Department that the pact was unacceptable and would have to be renegotiated. Japan, however, is unwilling to reopen the negotiations. Japanese fishing officials point out that U.S. salmon fishermen use the same kind of drift nets that Asians do. The American versions, however, are many times smaller...
...rally surprised experts, most of whom had expected the dollar to drift lower this year. Their best explanation: a combination of high U.S. interest rates, which make the dollar attractive to foreign investors, and the political woes of West Germany and Japan. The Japanese have yet to pick a successor to Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, who announced his resignation in April over a stock scandal; in West Germany, Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrat Union has lost two important local elections this year. Moreover, even though the yield on such securities as ten-year U.S. Treasury bonds has slipped from...
Most damaging of all is a doubling of "back door" losses since the 1960s, especially as younger adults bred in Establishment churches drift into irreligion. "Most Episcopalians who have left have not gone over to the conservative churches," says Presiding Bishop Edmond Browning. "They have gone nowhere...
Ackermann's treatment of her next four years on the council seem tacked on to the end of the book. Although the content remains fascinating, the chapters drift away from the emotion at Roosevelt Towers...