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...wife who keeps track of her husband via a Miss Mark--a photo-snapping snoop in tourist a clothing. Mix in the usual Venezuelan traffic jams and customs officials. Spice it up with a few out-of-the-ordinary difficulties--such as transporting a red gas stove across an ocean on a tiny boat--and the recipe sounds complete. But not quite...
...Cambodians live in wretched refugee camps that are maintained by the United Nations. Since the fall of Saigon, anti-Communist South Vietnamese have had no choice but to make perilous escape attempts by sea. The risks are huge. Many are believed to have drowned in storms or other ocean mishaps. Even those who escape the surveillance of Communist patrol boats run the risk of being ignored by large ships they meet, or being forcibly pushed back to sea by police at supposedly friendly shores...
...barren territory is located on the western shore of the 17-mile-wide strait called Bab el Mandeb ("gate of sorrows" in Arabic), which links the Red Sea with the Indian Ocean. More than 70 ships, including many oil tankers, pass through the strait every day, to and from the southern end of the Suez Canal. Moderate Arab states bordering the Red Sea-Egypt, Sudan and Saudi Arabia-fear that the Soviet Union, already well established on the eastern side of the strait in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, may have designs on Djibouti in a move...
Died. Bruce C. Heezen, 53, geologist and oceanographer who charted the ocean floor; of an apparent heart attack; while aboard a submarine, off the coast of Iceland. Heezen, who joined the Lament Geological Observatory when it was founded in 1949, helped discover and map the 47,000-mile-long globe-girdling system of ridges and rifts-a landmark in geology. Heezen also studied the role of turbidity currents (underwater rivers of mud) in shaping the contours of the sea floor, and theorized that glassy particles called tektites in the ocean sediment were the result of the collision of meteorites...
Near the end of the line is Revere Beach. On a cool night Revere Beach means fried dough, pinball machines, dark bars, leather-jacketed adolsecents, pizza, joints, dirty sand, dirty ocean. On hot days people actually try to use the beach, although the ocean there is about as swimmable as Cambridge water is directly drinkable. But Boston's decaying and dinky answer to Coney Island is nonetheless high on liveliness...