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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About the time that Soudan was opening his shipping firm, a man calling himself Bert Stem-fortyish, with gray hair and a vaguely Germanic accent-appeared in Piraeus, Greece, to hire a crew capable of working a supertanker. The load was to be 194,000 tons of Kuwaiti oil, to be delivered in Genoa to an independent Italian oil company, Pontoil. On Nov. 30, the ship-Soudan's Salem-sailed for Kuwait and picked up the crude. After four days at sea, however, the cargo was sold to Shell in a normal spot-market transaction. Shell kept Genoa...
...largest port. By then the crew had painted over the name Salem on the hull, making it read Lema-a simple three-letter switch. The vessel then slipped out of Durban around Jan. 2, Lloyd's believes, with its tanks full of sea water to simulate a full load. Two weeks later, when the ship was almost back on its original schedule, it sank off the Senegalese coast...
...admire Jon more than any other swimmer on the team," Hackett said earlier this week. "To start serious swimming so late is an incredible disadvantage, plus he was the youngest and smallest guy on the team. He is amazingly dedicated. In spite of a very difficult course load, he makes more early morning practices than...
Four years. Four different finishes. I'd run the gamut of achievement and emotion in front of a packed Garden house each February. My term was up. It was time to load up the station wagon and tell Mom she was right...
Captain Miller ran away to sea at age 16. He thinks of the semester as a "total immersion," with an impact greater than the academic work load. "My theory is that people are split apart more and more, alone at home watching television," he says. "At sea they are thrown together as a group. That fills a basic human need. How else can you explain the intensity of feeling the students develop...