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...happy Vladivostok summit meeting with Gerald Ford later this month, the Russians last week allowed Lithuanian Sailor Simas Kudirka, 44, and his family to fly to the U.S. Kudirka attracted world attention four years ago when he leaped aboard a U.S. Coast Guard cutter from a Russian fishing trawler in American coastal waters, seeking political asylum. He was beaten and dragged back aboard the trawler while embarrassed U.S. crewmen looked on. Kudirka, who claims U.S. citizenship through his Brooklyn-born mother, was released in direct response to a message from Ford to Brezhnev...
...land in Nicosia after Monday's coup. Quick to follow was Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager, who, like Marmon, reported for TIME on both the Viet Nam War and last year's Middle East October war. Prager made it to Cyprus aboard a 1,000-ton German trawler bearing two dozen newsmen whose transistor radios interfered dangerously with the ship's compass. "The old Viet Nam bush jackets are here in full flower," quipped Marmon as Prager and other journalists arrived...
Some politicians recently raised a furor because Exxon's refinery in Bay way, N.J., fueled a Polish fishing trawler while American fishermen were worrying about supplies. Nonplused Exxon men were late in explaining that they simply had been fulfilling a legal obligation under a long-term contract to sell products to a Polish state company...
London immediately rejected Iceland's right to extend its sovereignty unilaterally. British trawlers continued to cast their nets up to twelve miles from the Icelandic coast. In response, Icelandic gunboats cut the warps and traps of British trawlers. Two weeks ago, London claims, a gunboat called Tyr (god of war and victory) attempted to board the trawler Lord Alexander and fired two warning shots across...
...comment on operational matters; pilots and crewmen were ordered not to talk to outsiders. Such strictness was understandable-but almost certainly the North Vietnamese knew far in advance that the raiders were on their way. One of the permanent features of life in Guam is a radar-studded Soviet trawler that works just a few miles west of the island...