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...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 the ship's log. The record of the trawler's fishing activities disclosed that the Shevchenko had significantly exceeded the permitted limit on river herring-a protected species. According to the log, most of the fish had been transferred to the trawler's mother ship, which was already...
...Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization. As for regulating foreign-flag vessels in U.S. waters, all the needed authority is included in the 1972 Ports and Waterways Safety Act. It gives the Coast Guard sweeping powers to set safety, equipment and crew-training standards for foreign vessels; the Coast Guard can inspect such vessels and order them away from U.S. ports if they judge them to be a safety problem...
...ferry from Algeciras to Tangier it's easy to become engrossed admiring the approaching scenery and to ignore one's fellow passengers--dispirited, unromantic, impoverished North African laborers. It's tempting to affect an eighteenth-century gentleman merchant's self-esteem when brought mint tea and invited to inspect carpets and bolts of silk in a Moroccan bazaar. But the rotting garbage in the streets is probably more typical of the real East. And to queries about the nature of those mysterious blue crystals in the burlap sack, the reply, translated, will be: "Detergent...
Symbols of the "innocence" of his cheat, the children bear the consequences of his guilt, and he imprisons them. After a while, the children's captivity becomes an international scandal and the Red Cross is called in to inspect the situation. In a panic the patriarch orders the children shipped to the farthest jungles, put on a steamer and blown up. He then kills the men who executed his order--poor kids, he says...
Kahn said that security surveys and complete security reviews are the basis of the department's new crime prevention effort. Crime prevention officers inspect buildings in the University and make recommendations to the Faculty about improving security...