Word: freighters
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Surat is one example of many people brought together hurriedly. Cholera arrived in South American in 1991 in the bilge water of a freighter. A more recent example of cholera attack appears in the migration of 20,000 Rwandans to Zaire two months ago. The result of a massive disruption in demography was an epidemic of cholera...
SHOPPING NETWORK. There are clear indications that Saddam has reopened his high-tech procurement network. In June 1993 the Egyptian navy intercepted a freighter carrying hydrochloric acid from India outside the Gulf of Aqaba. Experts said Iraq could use the chemical for uranium enrichment...
...required under the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Hosokawa may unveil the scheme as soon as next month, the deadline for the end of the current GATT talks. Apprehensive Japanese rice farmers last week furiously protested the arrival of the Tanjung Pinang, an Indonesian freighter carrying Thai rice shipments imported under a special one-time arrangement to make up for a bad harvest this summer. The protesters seemed all too aware that the Tanjung Pinang is a harbinger of imports still to come...
Chinese sensibilities were hurt again by two recent events: the U.S. accusation last August that a Chinese freighter, the Yinhe, was carrying prohibited chemical-weapons components to Iran; and the International Olympics Committee's selection of Sydney rather than Beijing as the site of the 2000 Olympic Games. An independent inspection of the Yinhe by Saudi Arabian officials in the presence of American "consultants" showed the U.S. accusations to be without substance, prompting Beijing to demand a formal U.S. apology and compensation for the freighter's interrupted voyage. Afterward, the Chinese press went on a name-calling binge, deriding...
...people died when a tramp freighter smuggling Chinese immigrants into the U.S. went aground just off New York City. After hundreds of the would-be immigrants jumped overboard into chill waters in an attempt to swim ashore, about 285 were treated and released into the custody of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which will decide whether the immigrants should be returned to China. Police said a Chinese gang operating in lower Manhattan organized the nightmarish 17,000-mile voyage of the Golden Venture with the intention of collecting a fee of around $30,000 a head...