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...petroleum-rich, water-poor Saudi Arabia. A French engineering firm hired by the Saudis is studying whether or not the plan is practical. Towed by six tugs, the French believe, an iceberg could make the 5,000-mile journey from the bottom of the world to the Red Sea port of Jidda in six months to a year. If the mountain of ice was large enough-say 85 million tons-and wrapped in insulating plastic, it would shrink by no more than 20% along the way, providing enough water to the desert kingdom to make the venture economically feasible...
...York harbor, the Coast Guard waged a bitter struggle to keep shipping lanes open to the nation's busiest port. Sandy Hook Channel, one of the two main passageways, finally was closed as the unusually heavy ice submerged or moved navigational buoys. No one wanted to risk yet another major oil-tanker disaster. Icebreakers rammed their curved prows against ice up to 18 in. thick to keep the Hudson open as far north as Albany. Surprisingly, the faithful Staten Island ferry kept moving Manhattan workers in comfort to their jobs across the windswept harbor...
That slogan would not fly on Madison Avenue, but it is proving persuasive enough in Pepsi-Cola's newest market: the Soviet Union. Since 1974, when cases of Pepsi began rolling out of a new plant in the Black Sea port city of Novorossisk, sales have grown to 50 million bottles in 1976 and may climb another 20% this year. Pepsi's venture has set a pattern for future deals in the just stirring market for Western consumer goods in Russia...
...made by the men who run them. What is the answer to the human hazard? Many experts think it rests with the proliferation of the supertankers-including the behemoths known as very large crude carriers (VLCCs) that will be hauling increasing percentages of U.S. oil imports as deep-water port facilities are built. While these ungainly and oddly delicate ships-seaborne "steel balloons," Supership Author Noël Mostert calls them-are by no means immune to trouble, they are primarily run by big operators, including oil companies, that set high standards for captains and crews. Says Klaus Meurs, senior...
...Havana, Cuba, where the passengers understood they could disembark if they chose. Once in Havana harbor, however, the Jews were not allowed off the ship. Their landing permits had been deliberately scrambled by the Cuban government in league with the Nazis, who wanted the ship to sail from port to port searching for asylum. The St. Louis would then become a diplomatic liability, an embarrassment, and would be an active demonstration, according to the Nazis, of what a "problem" the Jews were. This squalid footnote to the Holocaust raises some curious questions-prominent among them is why President Franklin Roosevelt...