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...Ocean City, N.J., more waste, including stacks of money, come ashore over a period of about a week...
...with some fascinating reports, such as the discovery that after three months 250 miles up in space, they are so attuned that they can see with the naked eye ships at sea, tanks gathering on a field and, so rumor has it, even submarines under the surface of some ocean areas...
...release of the dolphins was the work of the Oceanic Research Communication Alliance, a ragtag team of dolphin lovers and scientists. Most previous attempts to release captive dolphins have been ad hoc or ill conceived. In 1977, for example, animal liberationists "freed" two dolphins from a tank in Hawaii. Hours later one of them was briefly spotted foundering on a reef, badly lacerated. Even so, scientists and conservationists are - increasingly interested in readapting captive or injured sea animals to the wilds. Last month the New England Aquarium, with support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, organized a successful attempt...
Shipping sources said they expect the 81,283-ton Sea Isle City, 79,999 ton Ocean City and 46,723-ton Gas King to be joined by the Bridgeton. The 401,382-ton tanker hit a mine July 24, near a fortified Iranian island, on the first voyage up the gulf by empty Kuwaiti vessels under American protection...
...prime beneficiaries of the American operation are Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Yet when the U.S. finally decided to dispatch minesweeping helicopters to the region last week, it was unable to negotiate the right to use bases in those two countries. The choppers had to be transported to the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, 3,000 miles from Kuwait. It will take a ship a week to carry them from there to the Persian Gulf...