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...Felicity is one of about 16 tankers chartered by Iran to ferry oil from Kharg to a terminal at Larak island in the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz...
...Institutions and profits can get in the way of truth" in science as much as anywhere else, said George A. Strait, Jr., science and medicine correspondent for ABC News...
...quite the contemporary he seems. Sioux and Cheyenne blood flows in his arteries ("My people were warriors once"), and when his experimental aircraft is forced down over the Bering Sea, he becomes a Native American fugitive in a 20th century world, retracing the path his ancestors took across the strait to fresh hunting grounds. In pursuit are the current equivalent of bounty hunters: Soviet agents under the baton of the crafty Colonel Zamatev. The influence of Film Director John Ford soon seems to overshadow the action: "(Joe's) hair had grown long, and rather than try to cut it with...
Throughout the increasingly bloody conflict there have been charges that the separatists have been aided by India, which has a substantial Tamil population in the southeastern state of Tamil Nadu, 22 miles from Sri Lanka across the Palk Strait. But in the past ten months, Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has tried to broker a peace agreement between the Sri Lanka government and the insurgents. Last year he helped arrange two ceasefires, only to see the fragile agreement crumble. Sri Lanka's President J.R. Jayewardene, for his part, has offered greater political autonomy to the Tamils but rejects the idea...
...keeping to himself, getting by on odd jobs, never staying in one place for very long. Last week the misanthrope, who wants only to be left alone, briefly became a focus of international attention. Early this month the Wanderer took a 2 1/2- mile stroll across the frozen Bering Strait, from America's Little Diomede Island to Big Diomede in the U.S.S.R. The suspicious Soviets moved him to a tiny room on the mainland and interrogated him there for nearly two weeks. Weymouth finally convinced them that he was not seeking to defect--just wandering...