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Known as bareboating, the practice of chartering yachts equipped with everything but a crew has become a big business around the world. While most of the vessels are moored in the Caribbean, marinas from Singapore to Scandinavia also have their share. In all, rent-a-yachts are now attracting U.S. sailors at a rate of more than 100,000 a year...
...Soviet Union made no comment. In neutral Finland, where soldiers scoured the border area by helicopter and snowmobile in the bitter cold, officials quietly checked with Moscow to see what had happened. President Mauno Koivisto declared in a New Year's message that cruise missiles were causing "insecurity" in Scandinavia and called on both NATO and the Warsaw Pact to accept a ban on such weapons in northern Europe. But his remarks had been recorded a week earlier and were not precipitated by the wayward missile. In Norway, the government decided to send a note of protest to the Soviet...
...avoid giving aid and comfort to the anti-cruise movement in Britain, where 32 U.S. cruise missiles are currently based. By contrast, the opposition Labor Party quickly seized on the report as an argument against further deployment of U.S. cruises in Western Europe. Charging that the flight over Scandinavia showed how "unreliable and extremely dangerous" the missiles are, Labor's defense spokesman, Denzil Davies, contended that "it is time for the superpowers to negotiate these weapons out of existence." A senior British official suggested wryly that the whole affair had been arranged by the Kremlin in order to give...
Rothenberg is notorious for his unconventional style. As a freshman, he got into serious trouble for moving a piano in the Union for a performance. And last summer, while working for Let's Go in Scandinavia, he was arrested in Denmark for tampering with his Eurail Pass in order to use it for an extra month. He spent a day in jail and was threated with deportation, but somehow worked his way out of it. While researching in Finland, he received media fame for participating in a music workshop given by John Cage, one of the foremost innovative contemporary composers...
...nearly a generation, many West European countries enjoyed very low unemployment. While the jobless rate in the U.S. was seldom less than 4%, the countries of the European Community and Scandinavia had just 2% to 3% unemployment. But since the first oil-price shock in 1973 all that has changed. During the '70s about 20 million new American jobs were created in high-tech fields and service industries. Yet in Europe total employment in 1983 was less than it was in 1973, and unemployment is now above 10% in several countries...