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...meantime, Greenpeace is reaping more free publicity than at any other time during its 14-year history. Last week a replacement for the Rainbow Warrior set sail from Amsterdam headed for the Pacific. The new flagship, a converted oceangoing 900-ton tugboat that has been christened the Greenpeace, will rendezvous with other ships to protest French nuclear tests in the South Pacific expected to be held in October. In a sharply worded statement immediately following the ship's departure, Mitterrand vowed to continue testing in the area and to repel all protests "by force if necessary." Greenpeace officials have said...
Coke, though, will answer the Pepsi Challenge. Last week, for example, company officials sped some of the first cans of the new drink from a Queens bottling plant to Manhattan's Battery Park, where they loaded them aboard a tugboat and took them to Liberty Island. Then in a brief ceremony, Charles E.F. Millard, chairman of the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of New York, presented a can to a worker on the Statue of Liberty renovation project. As the new Coke is introduced into various marketing areas, it will be accompanied by a barrage of commercials, including one that shows...
When we left the next day, an Iranian tugboat followed us for 50 miles. The fully loaded ship rode low on the sea. On deck, the captain and a few officers were silent and unsmiling as they searched the horizon with binoculars. "I know if anything happens, there will be panic among the crew," Captain Chu Ching said...
...been hit, it would have taken no more than 30 minutes for the tugboat to reach us. Tankers are usually hit in the engine area, but because the Exocet missiles used by Iraq do not have a powerful explosive force, a ship is not likely to explode or sink rapidly. The big fear is that the oil will catch fire and trap everyone on a burning...
...hour, posed a danger to the dozens of ships that round the cape every day. In a daring maneuver, a private helicopter, with air force planes monitoring the situation, lowered two divers onto the wreck to attach a towline to the tanker's bow. A powerful tugboat then began to tow the wreckage 100 miles out to sea, where it will be sunk in some 6,000 feet of water...