Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rights, most recently in the Tongass and Chugach national forests. The Bureau of Land Management fights Alaska's grim forest fires; four years ago, one fire consumed a tract as large as Massachusetts. The Coast Guard protects the Alaskan fishing industry from constantly marauding Japanese, Russian and South Korean fishermen. As if to symbolize Washington's dominance, the Federal Building in Juneau is a huge glass-and-steel cube that literally overshadows the rambling old stone statehouse...
Evidently not. In Seoul, South Korea's Defense Ministry reported that one of its patrol vessels had been captured, not sunk, at roughly the point cited by North Korea. The Seoul vessel had been on picket duty, assigned to warn South Korean fishermen when they strayed too close to Communist waters. A slow, unwieldy tub, armed only with a single .50-cal. machine gun, it would have been no match for its speedy, heavily armed North Korean captors. In Washington, the U.S. Navy flatly denied that any U.S. ships had been operating in the area...
...Titanic sails at dawn. Everybody's shouting "Which side are you on?" And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot fighting in the captain's tower, while calypso singers laugh at them and fishermen hold flowers. Dylan
...kind of shoulder-shrugging despair best illustrated by Writer Lillian Hellman when her neighbors sought her help in protecting the island of Martha's Vineyard from a jet airstrip. "Everywhere else has been ruined," she replied. "Why should we be different?" Boyle avoids both pitfalls. Hand-wringing fishermen often exaggerate the ruination of the Hudson by pointing to a lack of salmon. By consulting records and fishery experts, Boyle has established that the Hudson never was a salmon-run river. Some sections of the river are clogged with effluence but not yet ruined, Boyle points out. The river still...
People's Democracy held a march in January 1969 from Belfast to Derry. The right-wing Paisleyite Protestants attacked the march every five or six miles. Catholic farmers and fishermen turned out to protect the marchers, and concrete working-class support gathered around the march "like a rolling stone...