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...companies who today paid tribute to Bridges, used extraordinary measures to break the longshoremen's strike, enlisting the aid of National Guardsmen who killed and wounded scores of workers...
...superpower confrontation took place on the high seas last week. Ironically, it showed that U.S.-Soviet relations are not quite as strained as some of the hand-wringing post-mortems over the Russian rejection of new U.S. SALT proposals might suggest. American Coast Guardsmen boarded and seized two Russian fishing vessels-an encounter that gave both countries plenty of opportunity for belligerent muscle flexing. Neither jumped at the opportunity...
...incident began when the Coast Guard cutter Decisive ordered the Taras Shevchenko to heave to in waters about 130 miles southeast of Nantucket Island, Mass. Commander Alan B. Smith suspected that the Russian ship had been violating the U.S.'s new 200-mile fishing zone. Three Coast Guardsmen and two agents of the National Marine Fisheries Service scampered up the trawler's rope ladder and split into two teams. One hurried below to check the ship's cleaning and packing facilities and its refrigerated hold; the other team headed for the skipper's cabin to inspect...
...airborne engineer task force at Fort Bragg, N.C. They arrived with snowblowers and trucks. The Air Force sent a C-130 cargo plane from Cleveland with needed repair parts for snow-removal equipment, and another plane hauled in cots and blankets from Washington, D.C. More than 500 National Guardsmen pitched into the snowbanks. Later, Carter declared nine counties a major disaster area, thereby allowing local governments as well as individuals, businesses and farmers to get additional federal funds to cover losses...
...spills is still very much a developing science. Such devices as booms to contain spilled oil and vacuum cleaners that suck it off the surface may work fairly well in the quiet waters of harbors or slow-flowing rivers. But the open ocean poses all but insuperable problems. Coast Guardsmen lost $200,000 worth of equipment when stormy seas forced them to abandon attempts to take off the Argo Merchant's cargo. The pounding waves rendered booms useless and stymied the Coast Guard's attempts to set the oil on fire...