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...forth from his favorite spot behind the padded bar in the corner of the living room, or demonstrates his culinary talents in the cramped kitchen. Calley learned to cook in Viet Nam, where "I used to tell about six guys to give me their K rations and I'd fix us up a banquet if they'd dig my foxhole for me. I'd pull wild onions out of the ground and somebody would come along with a rabbit or a chicken, and I'd make us a feast over an open fire." One day recently, he concocted a tomato...
...conditions, load and unload tanks, and even diagnose a sick sailor's ailment, the inevitable result is boredom. The scraping and painting that busied generations of seamen are no longer necessary. The Europoort, for example, is coated with 600 tons of nearly impervious paint that requires a cosmetic fix only once every two years. Seasickness, which used to keep novice seamen running for the rail, is only a memory. The huge beam of the VLCCs-close to 200 ft.-makes them extremely stable, even in rough storms. Faced with up to four months at sea, Europoort's crewmen...
...Most newspapers that reported Garry's statement mentioned the lawyer in their original stories. But some-including the Post and the New York Times-carelessly dropped Garry's name in subsequent stories. With or without mention of the source, the constant use of the figure tended to fix it as factual in the public mind. When finally confronted by Epstein last fall, Garry readily modified the charge from 28 Panther deaths to 19. Later, he classified any figure as "irrelevant...
...ambition now is to serve the full six years of his new Senate term. But political plans are never absolute. Despite the tragedy at Chappaquiddick Island 19 months ago, despite the embarrassing loss of his job a month ago as Senate whip, Kennedy's potential Democratic opponents will fix him with an apprehensive eye all the way through the 1972 convention. So will Richard Nixon. A Gallup poll released in January showed Muskie and Nixon running even with 44% of the vote each; but Kennedy, despite his setbacks, still drew 38% against Nixon...
There will also be some secondary effects from the mangrove destruction. Villagers in the south relied on the mangroves as a major source of wood for fuel and charcoal. Mangrove-lined waterways provide food and nursing grounds for fish and crustaceans, too. Mangroves are active photosynthesizers and fix carbon into an organic form the fish can use. The HAC was unable to estimate the magnitude of this function but suggested that its impact on the fishing industry deserved study...