Word: trawler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iraqi warplanes firing antiship Exocet missiles set a Cypriot tanker ablaze in Iranian waters, one day after an Iraqi air attack on a shrimp trawler killed its Australian skipper...
Maritime salvage agents reported the 85-foot Australian shrimp trawler Shenton Bluff was damaged near Iran Thursday by an Iraqi missile...
...France the scandal specialty for years has been covert mayhem committed by barbouzes, shadowy secret government agents with false beards or other disguises. The gem of these was surely the Greenpeace affair of 1985, in which two teams of French secret service frogmen blew up a trawler belonging to the environmental organization Greenpeace in Auckland harbor. The resulting international uproar shook Francois Mitterrand's Socialist government and forced the sacking of its intelligence chief and the resignation of its Defense Minister. Unlike Iranscam, however, that was the extent of it. Parliament never pursued it further. Indeed, the two French agents...
After a series of warnings, an Argentine warship began to fire at a Taiwanese squid trawler, leaving the vessel in flames. The casualties: one Taiwanese killed, one missing and five injured...
...would anyone want to live on a boat? "That's what all my family asks," says Lee Clark, 67, a former policeman from Ohio. He and his wife Mary retired to a 42-ft. trawler. The answer, for them, is in the name of their boat, Yolo, for You Only Live Once. Donna and Will Adams spent nine winters on a 22-ft. sailboat called Echoue (Aground). He used to teach French at Lamar University in Texas. Now they sail and work at whatever comes to hand. "We like to read," Will explains. "This...