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...respected his judgment. Arnheiter seems harmless enough, but then he embarks on a series of inexplicable move which gradually convince the crew--and slowly convert the officers to a similar view--that he is really quite mad. Arnheiter spends $950 of the crew's recreation fund to buy a speedboat which, he says, will help to engage Vietcong gunboats by serving as a decoy. He has shark's teeth painted on the bow of the speedboat to give it fighting spirit. He institutes a code of moral behavior, cleanliness and shore-like routine that includes a required Protestant religious service...
Perhaps the most incredible episode comes when, after dragging three crewmen behind the Vance in the speedboat at 15 knots--very nearly drowning all three--Arnheiter leaves them in the Gulf of Siam to surveil a Vietnamese junk he suspects is spotting for a Chinese submarine reported to be in the area. Set adrift, the men try to raise the Vance on the radio; but Arnheiter has sailed out of range. Suddenly they spot a plane, an American plane. It drops down for a look at the junk and finds also a 16-foot speedboat with shark's teeth painted...
...Last week one such ship became a special attraction for vacationers at seaside motels. While moving through the narrow strait of Babel Mandeb (Gate of Tears), which separates the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, the 78,000-ton tanker Coral Sea had been attacked by a speedboat whose occupants fired ten bazooka shells at the unarmed vessel during a ten-minute pass...
...high-seas attack, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine quickly took "full responsibility." It was the Front, a Marxist Arab guerrilla group, that held 357 hostages at various times in Jordan last year and blew up four skyjacked jetliners. Its spokesmen in Beirut insisted that the speedboat had traveled a full 1,300 miles from the Jordanian port of Aqaba to carry out the attack, but this seems highly unlikely. More probably, the boat sailed from islands around Bab el Mandeb controlled by the radical government of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (which was Southern...
...ironing board. Barely able to cope with his impulses, he showed his sister holding up a stop sign to keep him away and his brother pointing a gun at him. The father was apparently of no help to his troubled son. Allan pictured him racing away in a speedboat...