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Since Saigon fell to the Communists in 1975, more than 1.2 million people have fled Indochina, most of them risking perilous journeys overseas in rickety fishing craft. Horrified by the plight of the boat people, a number of countries in Asia and the West liberalized their immigration policies to accommodate...
That hint of danger had not dissuaded the nine Americans, most of them normally sedentary landlubbers, from boarding the sturdy 48-ft. fishing trawler Gabriella in Kingston, Jamaica, and heading into the windswept Caribbean on a stomach-churning 124-mile, 15-hour voyage to U.S.-owned Navassa Island, 30 miles...
Only a few months ago, Alaska's $1.5 billion fishing industry expected a good year. The state department of fish and game has been predicting a record catch of up to 135 million salmon. Now the outlook has been shattered. A recall of more than 50 million cans of...
Tom Sawyer's carrot-colored hair peeked out from under a floppy fishing hat, and his bare feet dragged in the muddy water as he and Huck Finn floated lazily down the river on a makeshift wooden raft. Nothing could have been more American-only the river was not...
When the Argentines declared their independence in 1816, they claimed they had inherited Spanish sovereignty over the offshore islands that they called Las Malvinas. Nobody paid much attention, however, and several years passed before the Argentines made any attempt to take possession. They then appointed an ambitious cosmopolitan named Louis...