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...speeches last week. Nixon chided the Russians for their support of the North Vietnamese. The news that the B-52s hit a Russian freighter in Haiphong harbor cannot make Moscow any friendlier. The bombing of Haiphong and Nixon's statements concerning Russia may raise questions as to whether Nixon really wants his summit in Moscow to be a success...
...young dock worker, whose mistakes were compounded by a grumbling, bourgeois warehousekeeper. Now the opera has been rewritten to make the warehousekeeper the main villain; he has been upgraded to a traffic-control man, and is an active saboteur. At the end he tries to sneak aboard a "foreign freighter" from "northern Europe" but is captured after a fight. This would change a major detail in the story of Lin's attempted defection. The opera says, in effect, that he was intercepted trying to board the aircraft that crashed in Mongolia, and was arrested after a bloody battle...
...remembers that her mother was determined to have her enter a profession. "Mother said, 'When you educate a man, you educate an individual. When you educate a woman, you educate a family.'" After graduating from Ohio State, she shipped off aboard a Norwegian freighter as a dishwasher, worked and studied in Paris, and finally financed her way home via Africa, the Middle East and Asia by writing 200 newspaper articles along the way. Back in the States, she tried to become a reporter but could find nothing better than taking telephone dictation for United Press International in Washington...
...Argentine freighter Santos Vega, now on the high seas, is due to dock at New Orleans this month with a cargo of Rhodesian chrome. The shipment violates the sanctions against trade with Rhodesia imposed by the United Nations Security Council in 1966 and marks the first time the U.S. has deliberately ignored its U.N. charter obligations...
...scientists are plumbing the depths for data on currents, water temperature and the sea bed that are vital to fishermen and submariners alike. Although responsible to different chains of command, the commercial and armed navies often work in tandem. A visit to a neutral port by a Russian freighter, for instance, may be followed by a request for docking privileges by a trawler fleet-then by the flag-showing appearance of a rakish, gray-hulled missile cruiser...