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Just up the bay at Gaspee Point, Rhode Islanders each year burn a vessel in effigy to celebrate the burning, in 1772, of the revenue schooner Gaspee, an early warning about Yankee distaste for King and custom's duties. Last year the rusty old fishing boat Dorchester turned up...
Walvis Bay residents wish the desert could provide them with a living as well. Says Paul Vincent, editor of the local Namib Times: "Think how rich we could be if we could get into the business of exporting sand." As it is, the town's principal source of revenue...
The Bahamian exodus has encouraged a cutthroat smuggling trade, with boat captains charging from $50 to $500 per person and pilots of small planes demanding fares as high as $800 for illegal flights to small Florida airfields. One group of 13 Haitians paid a Bahamian boat captain $450 to take...
The U.S. is also mystified by the incursions, but less alarmed than its Northern European allies. "It's definitely odd behavior," remarked a State Department official. "But if the Soviets were intent on flexing their muscles, they might send in navy vessels instead of lumber and fishing boats." Whatever the...
Cutlass and sword are passe. Asian pirates today pounce from hidden coves in supercharged speedboats or trawlers armed with automatic rifles, M-79 grenade launchers and even antitank guns. Their easiest prey is the flotilla of fishing trawlers, ferries and small trading boats that ply the island waters. The booty...