Word: tankerous
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...computer-lease contracts that were prematurely canceled when IBM came out with a better machine. Furthermore, last year a disastrous 2.3 million tons of shipping were lost-including what may become the biggest marine claim ever, the sinking in the Caribbean in July of a 293,000-ton oil tanker, the Atlantic Empress. In addition, members face potential claims of $75 million from RCA for a communications satellite lost in space and perhaps a further $75 million from NBC if the network ends up not televising the Moscow Olympics because of the U.S. boycott...
...Greenwich time on Jan. 17, crewmen aboard the tanker British Trident sighted a ship in distress off the coast of Senegal in northwest Africa. The Salem, a 214,000-ton supertanker, registered in Liberia, was listing and dead in the water. By radio contact with the tanker, Trident learned that a series of mysterious explosions was responsible for the disaster; indeed, a cloud of orange smoke billowed from the tanker's deck. By 11:30 the disabled ship's Greek-born captain, Dimitrios Georgoulis, and his 22 crewmen, most, of them Tunisians, had pulled away in two lifeboats...
...Trident's officers immediately suspected that the Salem's sinking might not have been an accident; for one thing, the oil spillage was unusually small for a fully loaded tanker of that size. Then a talkative Tunisian crew member leaked the story to Senegalese authorities and new information quickly came to light. Detained in Dakar on charges of water pollution, Captain Georgoulis claimed that his ship's log had gone down with the ship. Local police, in piecing together the details, however, learned there was a 30-hour gap from the time of the first "mysterious explosions...
...wanting to miss any big-new-story bases, Forsyth throws in the maiden voyage of the world's biggest oil tanker, the Freya, hauling one million barrels of crude into Rotterdam. Anyone who has ever read a book or seen a movie knows as soon as you hear "maiden voyage," you better reserve a seat on the lifeboat. The ship and the Kremlin and the Ukranians and the White House all begin high-speed confrontations and near confrontations as Forsyth builds the tension. Which he does brilliantly. He spends several paragraphs in each location and uses almost cinematic cuts, back...
...This time," sighed a friend, "Christina's caprice has cost her $10 million." That presumably includes the tanker and the London flat that Christina Onassis, 29, Greek shipping heiress and stepdaughter of Jacqueline Onassis, has turned over to her estranged third husband, former Soviet Maritime Executive Sergei Kauzov, by way of closing the books on an unhappy 15-month marriage. She hated their Moscow apartment even though Kauzov, as a worker and husband of a notable foreign person, was allowed more space than most Muscovites. He was discomfited by her idle pleasures, including those lazy, sunny lunches on Skorpios...