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...industries cannot live without a stiff fix from Washington. U.S. shipyards enjoy the protection of a 50% tax imposed on nonemergency repairs of U.S.-owned ships in foreign yards. Another boost to maritime interests is a law that prohibits foreign- built vessels from carrying goods from one American port to another. In Geneva, U.S. negotiators say they want to exempt shipping altogether from the new GATT regime. Extensive textile quotas, which the Uruguay Round proposes to bring under GATT for the first time, raise the bills of every American family almost $500 a year, according to a 1987 study...
...Nicosia, Coleman saw the supposedly controlled shipments of heroin, called kourah in Lebanon -- inspiration for the CIA operation's code name COREA -- grow into a torrent. The drugs were delivered by couriers who arrived on the overnight ferry from the Lebanese port of Jounieh. After receiving their travel orders from the DEA, the couriers were escorted to the Larnaca airport by the Cypriot national police and sent on their way to Frankfurt and other European transit points. The DEA testified at hearings in Washington that no "controlled deliveries" of drugs through Frankfurt were made...
...secessionists also wanted to escape the tyranny of the ruble. So did many Russians. In 1990 I paid an eye-opening visit to the Pacific port of Vladivostok. The population there is overwhelmingly Russian, yet the local leaders were almost as eager to break with Moscow as the most fire-breathing nationalists in Lithuania and Georgia. I got the feeling that the city fathers of Vladivostok would have happily annexed their fair city and, better yet, the entire Maritime province of the U.S.S.R. to South Korea or Japan -- if they could only turn in their rubles...
...Ricardo singing Babalu. Its geography is Havana, a bad movie starring Robert Redford, and -- somewhere on the coast -- something called the Bay of Pigs. Add memories of big cigars, and white sugar, which now poses a greater threat to American health than communism. Otherwise, Cuba has been a closed port 90 miles off the U.S. coast, the plague island of the Caribbean...
...hold as it made its way from the Indian Ocean toward the Persian Gulf, where U.S. naval vessels were patrolling to enforce the U.N. embargo against Iraq. But after 10 days of less than crackerjack surveillance, the Dae Hung Ho eluded U.S. warships and docked peacefully in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. The Pentagon suddenly had a lot to explain...