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...gray waters of the Taiwan Strait. Often the pelts, along with Chinese antiques and traditional medicines, are traded by fishermen for Taiwanese electronics and consumer goods. The practice is so universal that when members of the Taiwan Coast Guard were asked by the WWF agent to estimate how many fisherman were engaged in smuggling, they laughed and replied, "All of them...
...example, Charlestown Fisherman captures a man, pensive and alone, deside a curved railing which separates him from the water. He turns away from the photographer and audience while he puts bait on his fishing hook, underscoring the privacy and calm of the scene. Here the man is not in opposition to the railing, a barrier between him and the ocean, but acts alone beside the metal structure...
Thirteen years ago, Hansen and four friends in a sailboat were shipwrecked on an uninhabited island 20 miles off the Yemenite coast. Mafeesh mushkilah. They had food, water and no appointments to keep. Hansen's emergency flares were undoubtedly seen by local fisherman and passing ships, but help came later rather than sooner...
Last week a 32-ft. Navy submarine, the Sea Cliff, found the Macon's collapsed frame in sand 1,450 ft. beneath the surface off Point Sur, 100 miles south of San Francisco. A fisherman, Dave Canepa, had netted scraps of wreckage from the site in the late 1970s. They had hung for years in Jeanne B's restaurant in Moss Landing. Several years ago, the alert wife of oceanographer Christopher Grech saw the relics and told her husband. He found Canepa, who recalled where he had snagged the pieces. The Navy's sub crew located the Macon...
First came The Shoes of the Fisherman, then The Clowns of God. Lazarus (St. Martin's Press; 293 pages; $19.95) completes Morris West's papal trilogy. Few laymen have written so knowledgeably about Vatican politics. West charts the course of Leo XIV, a crusty soul who has alienated the liberals in his flock. Now the Pontiff must undergo bypass surgery, and as if that were not threat % enough, Muslim terrorists are offering $100,000 for his life. Pope Leo returns from the operation like Lazarus from the dead. But he is a changed man, with plans to alter his church...