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Xiao, who was taken to the hospital with injuries to his spinal cord and intestines, said he wanted to go to Taiwan. Earlier this year a Chinese torpedo boat and its crew, who had mutinied and tried to defect to South Korea, were sent home by the Seoul government. But this time South Korea has announced that only the navigator will be repatriated to China. Xiao will presumably be allowed to go to Taiwan...
...spotted something out of the ordinary: a battleship-gray boat adrift on the murky water. He alerted the authorities, who dispatched the navy to tow the vessel, which was out of fuel, to the island of Hawangdung. Their haul was startling indeed: the craft was a 45-ton torpedo boat belonging to China, which has strained relations with South Korea, and six of the 19 sailors on board were dead...
Gradually the South Koreans began to piece together an explanation for the unusual incursion into their waters of a Chinese ship of corpses. The torpedo boat, together with 15 other vessels, had been taking part in a routine Chinese naval exercise when two crew members seized control. Apparently, they intended to take the ship to South Korea, and from there they hoped to defect to Taiwan. Their plan, however, had gone awry as the mutiny turned into a gunfight in which the six crew members were killed and both mutineers were wounded...
...Irish Republican Army bomb almost claimed the life of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, an I.R.A. splinter group had vowed to try again. Instead, a different kind of assault came from an unexpected source. As the meeting drew to a close, Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou threatened to torpedo its major goal: a painstakingly constructed agreement on the terms under which Spain and Portugal would be able to join the Community. Papandreou announced that unless the Community provided a six-year, $3.75 billion program to assist poor farmers in Mediterranean countries, he would veto any entry plan...
...which Delaware will claim 25%. About $50,000 of the salvor's initial investment went for one indispensable tool: side-scanning sonar of the type used by U.S. Navy ships searching for Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in the Sea of Japan last year. Mounted in a torpedo-shaped housing, the side-scanner emits pulses horizontally as well as vertically. It is towed behind a search ship, which methodically crisscrosses a designated area, to produce a detailed chart of the sea floor. By studying the "hits" on charts, an experienced technician can pick out possible ship ruins. "We found...