Word: freighter
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...island's sole industry is the production of copra, dried coconut meat that is collected by a freighter once a month and taken to the main island to be pressed for its oil. All over the island copra is spread on racks to dry in the sun, producing an inescapable smell of warm suntan...
...Soviet Union on the corporate jet, arranging "cultural exchanges" that were more show than tell. Somehow one could not forget, when viewing the eclectic arrays he promoted as "treasures of the Soviet Union," how in the '30s he and his brother Victor had astutely brought a freighter load of furniture and bibelots from Russian flea markets and hotel lobbies and sold it as "the Romanov treasure...
...late November 1989, American intelligence reported that the Soviet freighter Vladimir Ilyich, bound for Nicaragua, had loaded a cargo of four Mi- 17 Hip helicopters at Port Leningrad. The 38 Hips previously shipped to the Sandinistas had been used to devastating effect in the war against the contra rebels. It now looked as if Managua would get more. In neighboring El Salvador, meanwhile, Marxist guerrillas had launched their strongest offensive in years, managing to trap twelve American Green Berets in a luxury hotel. President Bush responded by dispatching a contingent of Delta Force commandos. U.S. intervention seemed a distinct possibility...
...Washington, the freighter's turnaround was proof that eight months of intensive and mostly secret Soviet-American diplomacy was paying off, an important signal that a tortured and bumpy attempt to end the conflict in Central America was back on track. The drama didn't end with the Vladimir Ilyich's recall. A good deal of hard bargaining between Washington and Moscow ensued. But when Nicaragua finally held its first free election in February, and the Sandinistas peacefully transferred power to the opposition that had defeated them, the superpowers had reason to celebrate. They had shown they could work together...
...cooling unit of one of the vessel's nuclear reactors had ruptured. By that time, the stricken sub, an Echo II-class vessel with a crew of about 90 and believed to be carrying eight nuclear missiles, had begun crawling eastward under auxiliary diesel power, escorted by a Soviet freighter...