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...heartland on the way to destinations around the world. Last week the artery linking Lake Ontario and Lake Erie was suddenly choked off when a concrete wall in one of the Welland Canal's eight locks collapsed. A section of lock No. 7 slammed into the side of the Liberian-registered Furia, a ship carrying 16,000 tons of wheat from Milwaukee to Alexandria, Egypt. Nine other vessels were trapped inside the canal; 21 were stranded on the Lake Ontario side waiting to enter; an additional eight coming from such ports as Detroit, Chicago and Toledo queued...
...gulf last week, Iraqi planes continued to threaten shipping. One missile caused only slight damage to a Liberian-registered supertanker, the St. Tobias. But another of the weapons was believed to have been responsible for destroying a small, German-operated supply ship off Iran's Kharg Island. The explosion killed the ship's eleven-member crew, including three British divers. Britain promptly issued a "strong protest" to Iraq...
...marked a resumption, after a respite of five days, of the devastating tanker war in the Persian Gulf. Twenty-four hours after he spoke, Iraq announced that it had hit two "naval targets" to the southeast of Kharg Island. Iran responded almost immediately by striking and heavily damaging a Liberian-registered tanker, the Chemical Venture, off Saudi Arabia. Next day Iraq claimed to have struck and destroyed a convoy of eight coastal freighters off Iran at the northern end of the gulf...
...Frank J. McGarr came in a lawsuit filed four years ago by nearly 100 claimants, including 76 Brittany communities, hotel owners and fishermen. Said one lawyer: "This is an incredible international can of worms. Not only are facts in dispute, but you're dealing with French, American, Spanish, Liberian, West German, and Bermudian entities." The judge found that Amoco had been negligent "with respect to the design, operation, maintenance, repair and crew training" of the tanker. He also blamed the ship's Spanish builder, Astilleros Españoles, for the design and construction of the faulty steering gear...
...Bluff; the Sandinistas promptly issued a proclamation "to the world" blaming the U.S., and the CIA specifically. That statement was not widely noted either. But then mines began going off in the Pacific ports of Corinto and Puerto Sandino, damaging a Dutch cargo vessel, Panamanian, Japanese and Liberian freighters and, on March 20, a Soviet tanker. Moscow had no doubt who was responsible; it accused the U.S. of "piracy...