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More Raids. In the course of the week, other Israeli air raids were carried out on the smaller Syrian cities of Homs, Latakia and Tartus. Additional foreign casualties were inflicted at Latakia when bomb fragments hit the 1,480-ton Greek freighter Tsimentavron, which was anchored in the harbor, and two seamen were killed. At Tartus, the Soviet freighter Ilya Mechnikov, which was reportedly unloading equipment for Syria's new Euphates Dam, was badly damaged by an Israeli missile, and a Japanese vessel was also reported sunk. The Russians immediately accused Israel of "barbarous" attacks on non-military targets...
...slow down," said Si Chung Lo, 37, a short and dapper freighter captain from Hong Kong. "You're inviting them to shoot...
There is talk that freighter captains may refuse to go on running the Communist blockade because of the high risks involved. In fact, some of their cargo is less than crucial. Among the imports brought through Communist shellfire last week: glass beads, French wines and tomato sauce...
Just three miles off Helvick Head on the southeast Irish coast, the navy's three minesweepers and a fishery protection vessel trapped a coastal freighter laden with five tons of arms. The catch was not mammoth as military matériel goes, but it included the kinds of weapons that the Provos have used to murderous effect: 250 submachine guns, 2,000 rounds of ammunition, 200 antitank and antipersonnel mines, 500 lbs. of gelignite, 300 grenades, TNT, explosive fuses and detonators...
Radio Hanoi reported that a camp holding American prisoners was struck. The State Department apologized to Poland for the reported sinking of the freighter Josef Conrad and the killing of three seamen. One Soviet and one Chinese vessel were also said to have been damaged, along with some foreign embassies. "The way things are going," said one disillusioned State Department official, "we'll hit the cathedral in Hanoi on Christmas Eve." At week's end, however, the White House indicated that there would be at least a one-day bombing halt over Christmas...