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...rally style, his wife Jacqueline, usually absent from his appearances, was in the audience at Atlanta. "I'm reluctant to run," Jackson says. "But I'm convinced somebody ought to go." Critical to the decision, which he says he will make in September: the congealing of his "rainbow coalition" of blacks, Hispanics, women, peace activists and environmentalists. But with an exploratory committee, headed by Mayor Hatcher, established and a "draft" committee of black ministers set to deliver a million-signature petition to Jackson by late August, his hat is already sailing toward the ring. Says New York Congressman...
...Rainbow Warrior is a tough old British trawler whose blunt bow has frequently poked into waters where it has not been welcome. It belongs to Greenpeace, an international environmental group that opposes whaling. Last week Greenpeace carried out its most daring protest yet. The ship narrowly escaped being captured, but seven Greenpeace members, six Americans and one Canadian, were detained by Soviet authorities...
...Whaling Commission in Brighton, England. With U.S. support, the commission aims to ban commercial whaling completely by 1986. Greenpeace believed that the Soviets were violating the commission's recommendation that only native groups be allowed to hunt the California gray whale. With 23 men and women aboard, the Rainbow Warrior steamed across the Bering Strait to the Siberian whaling village of Lorino. Six Greenpeace members went ashore to hand out leaflets to workers at the whale-processing plant. Suddenly a contingent of Soviet soldiers arrived and arrested the six. A Greenpeace member who was still aboard the Rainbow Warrior...
Minutes later two Soviet ships appeared and gave chase. "Getting quite hairy," the crew radioed Greenpeace headquarters in San Francisco. "They're playing chicken with us." Only after the Rainbow Warrior was well into international waters did the Soviet ships turn back. U.S. and Canadian officials interceded on behalf of the seven, and at week's end, Moscow released the protesters...
...sliced sushi exposes the insides which form a rainbow of colors from the multi colored fillings...