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Word: trawler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crew were killed, but then the attacking craft inexplicably veered off. Kimheng made it safely to port and next morning returned to the area to search for his other boat. The bodies of three drowned sailors were fished out of the gulf. But four other crew members and the trawler had vanished into the still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHEAST ASIA: The Jolly Roger Still Flies | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...millionaire at 56, Stephen employs more than 200 people (including five of his twelve children), he owns a 75-ft. trawler, rents a Colorado vacation condominium, and has a girth that testifies to his appreciation of the delicacies that sizzle on his grills. This fall he will start a promotion campaign to make Weber a grill for all seasons-catering not only to the summer chef but also to the diehard, if sometimes frostbitten, barbecue aficionado's Thanksgiving or Christmas roast turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENTREPRENEURS: Backyard Bonanza | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

...search for other pools. Athens claimed that each of its islands has a continental shelf. Such a claim would preclude Turkish drilling in much of the Aegean. Nonetheless, the Turks last year dispatched the seismographic ship Sismik1 to carry on oil explorations near several Greek islands; the converted trawler was challenged by Greek destroyers and a battle was narrowly averted. Sismik1 was supposed to sail on another exploratory mission this month, but its departure has been postponed. Ironically, the oil at Thassos is not only of poor quality but is also expensive to exploit, and petroleum experts are skeptical about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Turks, Greeks, Congress and Carter | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...heave to in waters about 130 miles southeast of Nantucket Island, Mass. Commander Alan B. Smith suspected that the Russian ship had been violating the U.S.'s new 200-mile fishing zone. Three Coast Guardsmen and two agents of the National Marine Fisheries Service scampered up the trawler's rope ladder and split into two teams. One hurried below to check the ship's cleaning and packing facilities and its refrigerated hold; the other team headed for the skipper's cabin to inspect the ship's log. The record of the trawler's fishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: A little Stink About a Lot of Fish | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...Shevchenko's skipper, Alexsandr Gupalov, was handed a card advising him in Russian of his right to remain silent and to legal counsel. Ten hours later, after the Coast Guard's request to seize the trawler had been approved by President Jimmy Carter, the boarding party informed Gupalov that his ship was now under U.S. command. As the Stars and Stripes were run up its mast, the trawler started toward Boston harbor. Two days later the cutter Reliance brought in the Snechkus and its cargo of allegedly illegal herring. At week's end the Shevchenko was still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: A little Stink About a Lot of Fish | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

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