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Meanwhile, new information has become available on the discovery of the latest sub-surface invasion. A Swedish fisherman claimed to have first sighted a foreign vessel in the Musko port nearly four weeks ago, days before the navy began its fruitless depth-charge barrage and sonar search...
...your "Marital Tale of Two Cities" [Jan. 25] you failed to mention the plight of the scallop fisherman who is out to sea for ten to 14 days and home for only five. No letters can be sent. Ship-to-shore phone calls cost more than $7 for three minutes, and the conversation can be heard on scanners throughout the area...
...roster of 20th century Presidents who have sampled the delights of fly fishing is impressive: Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower and, of course, Jimmy Carter. In "Spruce Creek Diary," a 4,000-word article that appears in the current issue of Fly Fisherman, Carter, perhaps the most avid presidential devotee of the sport, recalls with affection his fishing vacation last May in Pennsylvania. In the piece, Carter laments the loss of two prized handcrafted fly rods, which were stolen during his move from Washington to Plains, Ga. "These rods, not the election campaign," he writes, "seemed...
...National Guard, the paramilitary ORDEN group, and at least two military helicopters massacred as many as 600 women and children. According to a Brooklyn-born priest who witnessed the one-sided fighting, women were "tortured before the finishing shot, infants thrown into the air for target practice...A Honduran fisherman found five small bodies of children in his fishtrap." Make no mistake; American guns, American ammunition, American helicopters, and on occasion even American personnel are involved: the Washington Post reported less than two months ago the confirmation from State Department sources that U.S. military advisers were riding in an American...
...Haiti is often arduous, a measure of how desperately Haitians want to leave their country. Many sell all their possessions and hire professional smugglers, who often starve them, beat them, or even dump them overboard. Others pool their money to buy a makeshift boat and then hire a local fisherman, who may know little about navigation, to bring them to America. The trip can easily end in tragedy, as happened when a rickety 30-ft. sailboat carrying 63 Haitians was swamped in the Florida surf last month, claiming the lives...