Word: shrimps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Coast Guard and by far the wildest card in this deck. A homicidal speed freak ("Gimme a rush, Jesus. If you want me for a sunbeam"), Pablo signs on with Jack and Deedee Callahan, a permanently sloshed American couple who run guns in a cutter disguised as a shrimp boat. This work is not so easy or pleasant as it once was. Sizing up Pablo, his new crewman, Jack says, "I used to like it when the baddest thing around these parts was me. These days I'm just another innocent abroad." The boat, guns and Pablo are destined...
...Republican convention last year. This time Kane spent five days with Helms at home and on the job and accompanied him to a Sunday-morning church service. Kane was treated to some BURNETT-CONTACT Southern hospitality when he joined the Senator and some of his cronies for shrimp jambalaya, poker and stories at the Raleigh antebellum mansion of North Carolina Superior Court Judge Pou Bailey. Kane found the evening "fun but unprofitable": he lost...
...course, but such items were priorities for the White House staff as it planned last week's double date for Anwar, Jihan, Ronnie and Nancy. It was the first state dinner in the Reagan Administration at which men wore business suits instead of black tie. Not a shrimp or crab claw was to be seen. But the Reagans' high style was very much in evidence, reinforcing their reputation as the best partygivers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue since the Kennedys...
There can still be hazards. Ecuadorian exports last year were up 62% in volume since 1979, but they increased by only 27% in value because the price of shrimp dropped an average of 80? per lb. Main reason: buyers were turned off by high prices and knocked shrimp off their shopping lists. American shrimpers, who still practice their trade in boats, do not like the lower prices and tough competition. They have been making protectionist rumbles in Washington for a tariff on imported shrimp, but thus far to no avail...
Shayne and the other shrimp producers see their product as a source of cheap, high-quality protein. Says Scott Horton, a marine biologist from Texas A&M: "Shrimp has far greater food value than any other farm product, even beef. It is really the chicken of the sea." Lower prices will be good news for consumers; in some Manhattan restaurants last week six shrimp cost a stunning...