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...British increased the pressure on the Argentines to get off the islands they had so precipitously seized. On Wednesday evening, Defense Secretary John Nott warned that the Royal Navy would sink any Argentine vessel, whether warship or merchantman, that was within 200 miles of the islands after midnight Sunday. "We will shoot first," said Nott. "We will sink them, certainly within the 200-mile limit." By week's end at least four British nuclear-powered submarines, led by H.M.S. Superb, were believed to be in position to enforce the blockade. The Argentines in turn declared that they were ready...
...June 6, the 14-gun brig Yankee Hero chased what it thought was a large unarmed merchantman off Newburyport, Massachusetts. The large vessel dropped the disguise from its gunports and revealed itself as the 34-gun British frigate Milford. When Captain James Tracy refused to surrender, the Milford's guns pounded the Yankee Hero for two hours, killing or disabling nearly half its 40 crewmen. Tracy, wounded in the thigh, managed to gasp, "Strike the colors," then fainted...
...people get to their knees." Then he added: "I can, and I do, tell you that in these long nights your President prays." Thanks to Johnson's restrained approach, what might have been at least a mini-crisis-the collision of the U.S. destroyer Rowan and a Russian merchantman in the Sea of Japan, 95 miles off South Korea-was treated as if it were a two-car collision on Route 66 and stirred little concern...
...year-old apprentice delinquent; often they are those of a 45-year-old writer. "Whistling, he bounced into Benny's narrow store," Green writes. "It always reminded Albert of a ship. The floor sloped. Great sacks of dried rice, beans, meal, were the stores of a Joseph Conrad merchantman, not a local grocery." No twelve-year-old thinks that way, not even a clever one who reads Conrad...
Since Mamie Eisenhower christened the Savannah in 1959, the streamlined, white-hulled ship has plied an ever-deepening sea of red ink. The world's first nuclear-powered merchantman cost the Government $82 million to build and up to $2,700,000 a year in subsidies to keep afloat. She sailed in May on a transpacific voyage that may well be her last, if the Senate-which scheduled hearings on her fate this week-decides that the ship, handsome as she is, is not worth her keep...