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Dolphins, which are among the more intelligent mammals, seem to have recognized the tuna-fishing threat. As recently as 15 years ago, says Veteran Tuna Skipper Harold Medina, they could be rounded up easily with a couple of skiffs propelled by small outboards. Sometimes they would even play in the mother ship's bow wave. Now, in areas where dolphins have been heavily fished, they are much more difficult to corral, forcing the fishermen to resort to more and higher-powered chase boats. Mexican fishermen call these recently sophisticated dolphins the "untouchables," because they disappear at the first sight...
STAFF WRITERS: Janice Castro, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Lloyd Garrison, Pico Iyer, Stephen Koepp, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar Jr., Sara C. Medina, John Moody, Jamie Murphy, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Janice C. Simpson, Jill Smolowe, Richard Stengel, Susan Tifft, Amy Wilentz, Richard Zoglin...
Searches of the park and adjacent waters produced not a hint of Wiley's fate. Further, he had not bought a swimsuit. That was no surprise to some. "Mel didn't like to swim," said Medina County Police Detective James Bigam, who came to know Wiley when they worked in the Medina sheriff's office in the 1970s. He suspected the answer to the disappearance lay in Wiley's ways...
...Colombian society. At least 100 air force personnel and 200 national policemen have reportedly been discharged because of drug connections; last year Attorney General Jimenez ordered investigations of 400 judges suspected of complicity in the trade. A particularly damaging cocaine link was revealed earlier this month when Roman Medina, the personal press secretary of President Betancur, was arrested on suspicion of helping smuggle 2.7 kilos of cocaine into Spain in two diplomatic pouches...
Milestones' current crafter is Sara Collins Medina, a staff writer for the past 3½ years. She is assisted by Reporter-Researcher Linda Young. Says Medina: "The process of sifting out an individual's achievements involves assimilating vast amounts of material, then compacting it to the density of poetry. The column also provides the world's most comprehensive education in the creative use of the semicolon...