Word: merchant
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...planners. For decades North Korea has performed a delicate balancing act between its giant neighbors, China and the Soviet Union, repeatedly promising each that it would not allow the other to establish a base on North Korean territory. For the past two years, however, North Korea has allowed Soviet merchant ships and tankers to use its year-round port of Najin and from there to transport petroleum and other supplies by rail to Vladivostok when that city's harbor is closed by ice. A top South Korean official notes that this kind of co operation would have been "unthinkable...
Last year, to show its disapproval of the invasion of Afghanistan, the vociferously anti-Soviet government of Singapore closed its superbly equipped and strategically located port and drydock facilities to the Soviet navy. Yet Singapore still does booming business servicing the Soviet fishing, merchant and oceanographic research fleets, all of which have naval auxiliary functions. In fact, Soviet fishing vessels, particularly mother ships, often carry out electronic eavesdropping on other navies. Soviet merchant tankers are frequently diverted to refuel warships. The Soviet Oceanographic Research Fleet-the largest in the world-charts the ocean floor for the navigators aboard Soviet submarines...
...does Aladdin resign himself to his fate, as does a dishonest merchant, whose excuse for cheating the boy is. "It's my destiny." (Early in the play, a paradoxically liberated slave girl not only refuses to be sold to the dishonest merchant, but she helps an honest one to pay for her.) "Don't wait for angels to save you," the slave girl sings at the evening's end. "Make a home in the body God gave you. Alone." Aladdin, then, is the story of a boy whose "exile" from the material world keeps him honest, open and strong...
...different precedent was offered by the Mayaguez incident. On May 12, 1975, Cambodian forces seized the American merchant ship Mayaguez and its 39 crewmen in the Gulf of Siam. On May 14 the ship was freed, after U.S. fighter jets had sunk three Cambodian gunboats, the Marines had landed on Cambodia's jungle islet of Koh Tang, and the U.S. had bombed a Cambodian air base at Ream. As soon as the ship was seized, President Ford simply declared the matter "an act of piracy," then threatened military action. On May 14 he dutifully appealed to the United Nations...
DIED. Emanuel Celler, 92, doughty, witty, longtime Democratic Congressman from Brooklyn who over a 25-term House career became one of Washington's most powerful urban voices; in Brooklyn. A whisky and wine merchant's son who thrived on New York City's combative clubhouse politics, Celler went to Capitol Hill in 1923, and over the next 50 years-until upset in a Democratic primary by Elizabeth Holtzman-became one of Congress's most influential big-city liberals. As chairman of the House Judiciary Committee for more than two decades, he was instrumental in shaping...