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...City bureau chief since 1969 and the winner of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for Latin American reporting, has been following the canal situation for seven years. Yet as he reported this week, his reflections went back 35 years to the time when, as a boy in a U.S. Merchant Marine T-2 tanker, he first traveled the waterway. The canal, he notes, was then bustling with wartime traffic, and the city of Colón flourished as one of the fleshpots of the Latin world. Today it is a depressed town. Reaching even further back, New Zealander Diederich remembers...
...interest legislation, antagonistic to free trade and potentially disruptive to U.S. treaty relations with perhaps 30 other nations. But Carter is for the bill. Wooing labor support during the campaign, he said he would work to "enact and develop a national cargo policy that would assure our U.S.-flag merchant marine a fair share of all types of cargo." Reading that as a promise to support cargo preference, the maritime unions donated more than $100,000 to Carter's campaign...
...crime rate, one of the lowest in the world. But recently an influx of low-income foreign workers-most of them Muslim-has caused an upsurge in crime, suggesting that knowing the laws of the Koran and that they are enforced is not necessarily a deterrent. When a Jeddah merchant left a crate of gold unguarded on the airport tarmac for two weeks, a Somali airport employee found the temptation too much. He began filching gold bars and selling them in the bazaar. Police caught him in the act and he was sent back to Somalia-minus one hand...
...government officials. Police captured Curcio in late 1974, but his wife, Margherita Cagol, led a commando raid against the lightly guarded prison and rescued him. Four months later, police closed in on Curcio's wife at a farm where she and some confederates were holding a kidnaped wine merchant. In the fight, Margherita, 29, was shot dead. When the authorities finally trapped Curcio in January 1976, they imprisoned him at the remote island of Asinara, northwest of Sardinia, where he shared a small windowless cell with two other captives...
...recurring themes in John K. Fairbank's work is the American perception of China. Since 1784, when the first American merchant ship sent to Canton returned with spices, silk, and a 25-per-cent profit, that perception has resulted in Americans' continual fascination with the vast, rich, mysterious nation. That same perception also launched many later ships laden not with goods to trade but with missionaries determined to remake the Chinese in their own image. We have never been able to see China through Chinese eyes, Fairbank teaches, but only through our own. Fairbank titled one of his many books...