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...forestall a disaster, the divers began carving a 10 ft. by 17 ft. hole in the hull. A giant floating crane operated by Smit Tak International, a Rotterdam company that often retrieves sunken ships from places like the war-torn Persian Gulf, will be towed out to sea on a platform to pluck out the barrels gingerly, an operation that will probably take about a month. Declares Smit Tak International's managing director, Klaas Reinigert: "Compared with all the other jobs we've done, this one's easy." Despite the intense publicity that the sinking...
...athletic body, the Interna tional Olympic Committee has instituted a testing system that seems almost certain to catch anyone who aims at getting a medal with the aid of a pill or a needle. Among the targets of the tests: amphetamines and, possibly the most dangerous drugs ever tak en by athletes, anabolic steroids...
...under the terms of the 99-year lease that imperial Britain wrested from the tottering Qing Dynasty in 1898. Although earlier treaties gave Britain the remaining 34 sq. mi. in perpetuity, that area depends on the New Territories for food and water and cannot survive alone. Literally overnight, Kai Tak international airport, half of Hong Kong's new subway system, and most of the colony's housing would no longer exist under the shadow of the Union Jack, but rather under the five-star flag of the People's Republic...
...called on the U.S. Government to "use all appropriate means to assist the British government." Haig, meanwhile, cabled his settlement proposals directly to the U.S. Ambassador to Argentina for transmission to that country's junta. Two days later the answer came back via Argentine Ambassador to Washington Estaban Takács: No. With that, the U.S. moved to back the British...
...islands, some 200 rocky outcroppings barely suitable for the chief local industry, sheep raising, hardly seemed worth the effort. But for nearly 150 years they have been the focus of controversy between Britain and Argentina. The main island grouping, the Falklands, was discovered by the British in 1 592, tak en over by the Spanish in 1770 and reclaimed as a crown colony in 1833. Ever since Argentina won its independence from Spain in 1816, it has claimed the islands, even though the 1,700 Falkland residents today are overwhelmingly English-speaking British subjects...