Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barrel, hauled up by fishermen trawling off the New Jersey coast, came from an area where radioactive waste material had been dumped for safe disposal...
Before long, rumors swept New Jersey that the barrel was radioactive-and that the fishermen had been dangerously exposed. At that point, agents of the Atomic Energy Commission turned up to examine it and check back on detailed reports of dumpings. The findings: the barrel had been filled with a white compound substance; it was not radioactive and never had been. "We spent a lot of money doing it," said an AEC official last week. "But we run down every lead." The case of the fishermen's barrel is an item in a deepening AEC problem...
...They remember the radioactive shower that fell on Rongelap, 100 miles east of Eniwetok, after a meteorological miscalculation in a 1954 U.S. test. The island's 82 inhabitants had to be quarantined on another island for 3½ years before their home was considered safe. Twenty-three Japanese fishermen in the trawler Lucky Dragon suffered radioactive burns. Since the Marshalls are held in a U.S.-administered trust by the United Nations, any nuclear accident there can be politically as well as atomically explosive...
...pressure to nudge history along has been mounting in India during recent months. In the U.N. last week, India accused Portugal of "wanton attacks" on Indian shipping and fishermen, charged that "heavy reinforcements of Portuguese troops and mercenaries" have been rushed to Goa. In addition, said Nehru, frontier violations, "bad cases of torture," and political "repression" pose "a direct challenge to India." Portugal dismissed India's charges as "barefaced falsehoods," declared that frontier "violations" were simulated by Indian troops who sneaked across the border and came back firing toward their own lines...
...toughest and most dedicated Communists are those trained in North Viet Nam. Some were ordered into neighboring Laos, to fight with the Pathet Lao against the Royal government (see following story). Others, like captured Lieut. Duong, came into South Viet Nam by sea in junks posing as fishermen but carrying arms and medical supplies to Viet Cong bands. Many have died rather than surrender, but brief glances into their lives remain in the scribbled pages of their diaries and journals. These diaries are not only added evidence of North Vietnamese intervention in the South, but a full reading of them...