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...favorite strategy of marijuana smugglers is for a drug-laden "mother ship," usually an aging freighter, to sail from Colombia or the Caribbean and then stay bobbing 50 miles or so off the Florida coast. On long hauls, drug runners motor out to the mother ship in yachts and fishing boats to pick up the cargo and then shuttle back to the mainland, docking anywhere along some 3,000 miles of South Florida coastline; on shorter hauls, they roar out in souped-up racing speedboats, called "cigarette" boats after the tobacco-bootlegging vessels of the 1930s. Costing as much...
...different tale. He repotted that most of the dead had eaten a hot meal of pork, chicken and rice less than two hours before they drowned. Since the food could not easily have been cooked on the overcrowded boat, Wright concluded that the Haitians had eaten on a large freighter run by smugglers and then were herded onto La Nativité a few miles from shore. Said Wright: "To me that's hard and fast proof they were dumped off from a mother ship...
...crisis is the latest in a recent series of setbacks to U.S.-Japanese relations. In April the U.S. nuclear submarine George Washington collided with and sank the Japanese freighter Nissho Mam, killing two Japanese crewmen-and then left the scene. In May, during joint U.S.Japanese naval exercises, U.S. vessels were blamed for cutting expensive salmon-fishing lines. Last week it appeared that Japanese ships or shadowing Soviet vessels might have been responsible, but the exercises had already been suspended. Finally, Suzuki's apparently successful visit to Washington in May turned into an embarrassment after a joint communique referred...
...that he had been "bewildered" by Washington's decision to lift the grain embargo against the Soviet Union and angered by the American failure to consult his government "sufficiently in advance." Suzuki's countrymen were also outraged when a U.S. submarine in April collided with a Japanese freighter in the East China Sea and then inexplicably left it to sink and two crew members to die. The resolution of a third and longer-standing difference between the two nations was hammered out less than a week before Suzuki's visit, when Japan reluctantly agreed to limit...
...everything. Fully can take a punch, though, and he is getting a good chance to prove it. Finally in the sixth Hagler throws his left hook and Fully is on the floor. The crowd is going crazy. "Mahvin! We love yooooo!" Fully gets up. He is moving like a freighter in heavy seas...