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...dolphins' tasks, private sources claim the dolphins defend moored nuclear submarines by identifying and killing saboteur-divers. Others are reportedly trained to locate mines (one dolphin died during recent naval operations in the Persian Gulf). Apparently, the CIA has even approached former trainers from the hit 1960s TV show, "Flipper," asking them to train dolphins to place explosives on ships...
...this has happened despite the objections of highly-respected dolphin trainers over the feasibility of the program. Indeed, Flipper's trainer Ric O'Barry, while admitting that dolphins are highly intelligent, added that they are also highly disobedient and unpredictable. O'Barry notes, "[Let's just say] I wouldn't want them guarding half our nuclear arsenal...
...wanton of Woodstock, taunting the zippered-up '80s with her lithe carnality. But here she's baggage: the petulant voice of logic in the ear of an innocent sea creature. "I'm here! I'm real! I exist!" she shouts to him, and he dips into the sea like Flipper. Why would an actress go to the Mediterranean to be insulted on film? For a paid vacation, perhaps. But in the midst of this Riviera holiday, Arquette was taken hostage to the bland emotional terrorism of a talented young director in over his head...
...fall of 1986, ORCA had a team, a release site and a detailed plan. Heading the group were two Californians, Virginia Coyle and James Hickman. Abigail Alling, a whale biologist, located remote tidal creeks in Georgia that abound with wild dolphins. Richard O'Barry, the former trainer for the Flipper television series, was hired to "untrain" the dolphins...
Questions to Hefner ranged from her personalinvolvement with Playboy to the ethics ofpublishing semi-nude pictures of Vanna White, theletter-flipper on the popular television game showWheel of Fortune. Hefner defended the decision toprint the pictures, even though White objected andhas filed a suit against Playboy