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...fishermen around Fort Bragg, Calif., a coastal town 140 miles north of San Francisco, had just about had it with the Federal Government. Over the past six years, the fleet of 300-ft. Soviet trawlers plying their waters has grown to 17 vessels, and none of the American fishermen's protests to Washington produced any results. The Soviets, they say, are fishing inside the U.S. twelve-mile limit and depleting the salmon grounds by using small-mesh nets, forbidden to the Californians. So the men took things into their own hands. They formed a vigilante group called American Waters...
...over the Suez Canal for a week's total of ten Arab aircraft-one of the biggest bags since the Six-Day War.) At sea, meanwhile, Israel pursued the same tit-for-tat strategy that it applied in Lebanon. After an Egyptian naval missile sank an Israeli fishing trawler and killed two crewmen, Israeli jets sank an Egyptian destroyer and missile boat...
...Soviets, naturally, have electronic spies of their own. Their trawler fleet makes up their most visible snooping force, showing up regularly in the South China Sea off Viet Nam and seaward from Cape Kennedy during U.S. space shots. The Soviets launch military reconnaissance satellites as regularly as does the U.S. TU-95 Bear turboprop converted bombers have been working near Alaska, since the early 1960s. Most recently they have been keeping tab on the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean-sometimes flying with Russian markings, sometimes with Egyptian. A shorter-range reconnaissance airplane, the TU-16 Badger, until a year...
Mother Glory. The semipermanent Russian flotilla is nothing if not well-organized. The largest Russian "mother" vessels measure half again as long as a football field and constitute floating factories in which the daily hauls of up to 20 trawlers are processed, frozen and stored. They also supply and refuel the smaller vessels and can haul them out of the water for repairs. Black Sea Glory even has medical and dental facilities for trawler crewmen, as well as movies and ball games on deck...
...squabble over fishing rights flared again when a Peruvian navy vessel challenged U.S. tuna boats working within the 200-mile limit that Peru claims as territorial water. On earlier occasions, tuna men were released after buying fishing licenses. This time the Peruvians pumped more than sixty shots into one trawler. After U.S. officials inspected the porous hull, Ambassador John Wesley Jones submitted a $50,000 damage bill to Peru. Unless the I.P.C. situation improves, U.S.-Peruvian relations will come to a bitter climax in April when President Nixon is forced by the Hickenlooper Amendment to revoke $79 million...