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Seven years and innumerable appeals later, Edwards' pertinacity finally paid off. Last week, as the Soviet freighter Stanislavskiy rested in its Toronto berth, Sheriff Joseph Bremner trotted up the gangplank and informed Captain Yuri Surnin that he was seizing his ship until the bill was paid. Pravda, the Soviet Communist Party newspaper, yowled that the boarding had been carried out by "police thugs acting like medieval pirates." But when Edwards also took actions to freeze the bank accounts of the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, Moscow warmed to the possibility of a settlement of the original bill plus interest, court...
Those who wish to pull up the gangplank should probably remember that arguments eerily similar to their own have been offered almost since the beginning of the nation. In 1797 a Congressman declared that while liberal immigration policies were fine for a country new and unsettled, the U.S. was now mature and fully populated and so the gates must close to newcomers. In the depression of 1873, workers rioted in some cities over the immigrants who were stealing their jobs from them. Americans, so idealistically generous and expansive in their official mythology, have generally greeted foreigners with fear and loathing...
...Citizens for the Republic is the number one political fundraiser. This is the year a screaming came across the sky in the form of TurboProp 13. This is the year a number of Great Society liberals like Minnesota's Don Fraser unexpectedly found themselves trudging the gangplank. This is the year the "barren ground" liberals like Mike Dukakis and Jerry "Jarvis" Brown are discovering precious little sustenance from the earth they scorched in a vain attempt to hold off the advancing barbarians. This is the year the swell for labor law reform hit a crosswind; the year natural gas deregulation...
...this infinite movie-a comedy-mystery into which someone forgot to put the comedy-does Chevy Chase get to do his famous impersonation of a klutz. One time he knocks over some glassware while attempting to project a suave image for Goldie Hawn; another time he falls off a gangplank into a river just after warning Hawn that it is slippery. At no other point is he given anything even remotely funny to say or do. It is hard to remember when a talented comic had fewer moments of risibility. He should thank his genes for the natural ease...
...going ashore! All aboard that's coming aboard!" Resplendent in a white dress uniform with new, gold commodore's bars on the shoulders, Captain Ernest Wagner, 66, pulled a well-chewed cigar from his mouth to shout his time-honored warning from the end of the gangplank. Then he climbed five decks to the wing bridge adjoining the pilot house and ordered the long pitman driving arms of the 2,000-horsepower steam engine to begin turning the 35-ft.-wide red paddle wheel. American flags fluttered to port and to starboard. Decked out in red, white...