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...claims Petty Officer First Class Robert Jackson, 26, who served ten months aboard the San Diego-based carrier. Working as an auditor on the ship, he accumulated about 1,100 pages of notes and documents on what he describes as appalling acts of waste, fraud, auditing forgeries and altered books in the handling of spare parts and other equipment. The system was so lax, Jackson charges, that when bookkeepers in various departments feared they were exceeding their budgets on supplies, they simply neglected to enter further purchases in the computerized record system. Jackson contends that he examined twelve departments last...
Fisher immediately sent his divers to the area, and instructed them to investigate a 3-sq.-mi. patch of underwater reef ten miles southwest of the Marquesas. He was relying on the supposition that the Atocha had probably split asunder on the reef. But a small find that at first seemed encouraging led him astray. In 1973 Fisher's boat, the Virgalona, hauled up his first Atocha finds, an anchor and three silver bars, some two miles or so from the site that Fisher had targeted. Says McHaley: "I wish we had never found them. It was a false lead...
...Fisher began his Florida-coast searches, his business has been a family operation. His wife Dolores still dives, and was once a world endurance champion. Along with Taffi and Kane, another son Kim, 29, helped recover the treasure. But the mom-and-pop hunt has had its dark side. Ten years to the day before last month's discovery, the Fishers' eldest son Dirk, 21, Dirk's wife and another diver were drowned when their salvage ship, the Northwind, capsized at night during a squall...
Thus last week the most densely populated areas of stricken and divided South Africa fell under an iron-like state of emergency. The crackdown by the Botha government came after ten months of black protest against apartheid, the country's rigidly enforced structure of racial separation, and followed earlier, ineffective repressions by the government. Almost 500 people, practically all of them black, died during that extended and bloody period of confrontation, some at the hands of fellow blacks, the majority as the result of police action to put down the unrest. Botha's proclamation of the emergency was intended...
...Cape Town, seat of the legislature, colored and Indian M.P.s shout their disapproval of apartheid within the new tricameral Parliament. In Johannesburg, black and white traffic cops wear the same black serge, receive the same salary and hand out the same tickets. Until ten years ago, television was not permitted by a government that regarded it as immoral and dangerously subversive. Today whites watch The A Team and The Bill Cosby Show and buy Mr. T dolls for their children...