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Characteristically, the Yuvali found no port in Asia that was willing to accept its surplus cargo, which included two dentists, a surgeon, a professor of geography, a former ARVN major, two bankers, two nurses, several fishermen, and 16 children under the age of ten. Captain Tadmor made an unscheduled stop in Hong Kong to get the refugees desperately needed medical attention; authorities in the British crown colony refused to allow them ashore on the ground that the Yuvali was not scheduled to call at Hong Kong...
Equally inhospitable, at first, were authorities in Taiwan: they put a police cordon around the ship to prevent anyone from getting off. Prospects for the refugees were equally poor at the Yuvali's next port of call, Yokohama, Japan has consistently refused to admit escapees from Indochina unless the United Nations or another country agrees to take the refugees off its hands quickly. Most Asian states will accept them-temporarily-only if there is no other way they can survive...
...Japan). Nonetheless, this week-nearly a decade after the project's conception and more than three years after construction started-the Alaska pipeline begins carrying its first oil through nearly 800 miles of forbidding wilderness, from Prudhoe Bay north of the Arctic Circle to the warm-water port of Valdez, which is 120 miles east of Anchorage...
...much feared renewal of rioting did not occur. There was one fatality; a 17-year-old Soweto youth was found dead in a shopping street, supposedly after having been questioned by police. The most serious disturbances occurred 1,000 miles away in the industrial town of Uitenhage, near Port Elizabeth, where seven blacks were shot dead and 33 injured in two days of rioting...
...managed to construct a rocket-powered wagon, and by the time he was 21 he had outlined the design for a moon rocket. His genius led the German army to employ him in 1932 to develop liquid-fueled rockets; by 1937 it had moved him to the Baltic Sea port of Peenemünde, where began the work that led to Hitler's dreaded V-2 rocket. As the war drew to a close, Von Braun was considering a missile that could reach New York City...