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...tons of Kuwaiti oil aboard the Salem, has filed the largest cargo claim ever received at Lloyd's: $56.3 million. Shell has also filed a suit against the Salem's owner, a Lebanese-American shipper named Frederick Soudan, charging that he purposely ordered the ship sunk two weeks after 170,000 tons of its oil were secretly unloaded in South Africa. Because of the magnitude of the alleged fraud, Scotland Yard has entered the investigation, and as a Greek shipping executive in London observed last week, "It's a lulu." At the heart of the mystery...
...venerable insurance market is being sued by 36 of its member underwriters in a case involving insured Bronx slum buildings put to the torch. Last year, Lloyd's investigated the smoking of five supertankers and dozens of other vessels; it estimates that, worldwide, 100 cargo ships were purposefully sunk in 1979, accounting for losses of $250 million...
...period before Bach was long the Atlantis of musical history: an entire realm sunk into oblivion, remembered only in legend. The poets, painters and architects of the time-roughly the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance-had been gloriously gifted; it stood to reason that the musicians had been too. Yet there was scant record of what their work sounded like. The scores that survived were in archaic, sometimes cryptic notation. The original instruments-for instance, the sackbut, a precursor of the trombone, and the shawm, a sort of oboe with a cold-often were found only among museum relics...
Karen Smith and Elame Holpuch played exceptional games. Holpuch scored twenty points and grabbed ten rebounds while Smith sunk 19, nine of them from the free-throw line...
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