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...backed down, tacitly recognizing Iceland's new claim. In the new accord, London has promised to send no more than 24 fishing trawlers per day into Iceland's 200-mile zone, to respect Icelandic-defined fish "conservation" areas, and to permit Icelandic patrol vessels to halt and inspect British trawlers suspected of violating the agreement. This, in effect, will limit British fishermen to about 30,000 tons of cod annually from the disputed area, compared with 130,000 tons last year. Moreover, some 1,500 British seamen and 7,500 workers ashore may lose their jobs because...
...welds are actually defective and need to be repaired, which might cost up to $10 million but would not delay the pipeline's opening. The companies concede that more than 1,000 welds need further study to see if they pose any environmental danger. To inspect all the welds would postpone the opening of the line for many months...
...captain. Probably on her way to inspect somewhere...
Earlier Richard Nixon had been invited to inspect the posters at Peking's Tsinghua University, indicating that Chairman Mao had endorsed and very likely started the campaign against Teng. But while the goal of the current campaign is clearly to cut Teng down to size, there was evidence that party officials were seeking to keep the struggle under control, lest it lead to the kind of chaos that swept China during the Cultural Revolution. There have not yet been any posters with incendiary slogans-such as ROOT OUT THE POISONOUS WEEDS and SWEEP AWAY MONSTERS AND DEMONS-aimed directly...
...Iowa State Historical Museum has mounted an exhibit in Des Monies of bomb fragments and balloons recovered in that state. There were six known victims of the bombing; on May 5, 1945, in Ely, Ore., a woman and five children went to inspect the strange object that had drifted down from the skies and were killed when the bomb exploded. The danger is not over. Some live bombs are still lying about U.S. prairies and mountains. "If you see something that looks like a bomb," cautions Iowa Museum Director Jack Musgrove,"leave it alone and call...