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...Orion reconnaissance planes, which have been flying over the sub 552 miles east of Bermuda through the weekend, reported that smoke stopped spewing from the vessel yesterday morning and no personnel were observed on the deck of the sub, said Pentagon spokesman Maj. Larry Icenogle...
...year war between Iran and Iraq, the Soviet Union has been Iraq's chief arms supplier. Last week Soviet ships for the first time became Iranian targets. As it steamed up the Persian Gulf, the Soviet freighter Pyotr Yemtsov was seized by Iranian gunships. The vessel was searched and released after 36 hours, when its cargo proved to be construction materials for Kuwait rather than supplies for Iraq. A second Soviet ship, the Tutov, was stopped briefly in the gulf and then allowed to continue...
...take Canadian officials long to discover major holes in the castaways' story. First of all, the Tamils were unable to provide the name or country of the mother ship or give any indication of the route it had followed. They had boarded and left the vessel at night, they said, and were kept in the hold throughout their 30-day odyssey. Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers noticed that the Tamils seemed remarkably hale after such an ordeal; they were not only healthy but clean and dry. Moreover, most of the refugees wore clothing with West German labels, and many carried...
Investigators suspect the Tamils were victims of an international plot to make a profit by transporting refugees seeking asylum in North America. Hamburg police last week arrested two Tamils and a Turk on charges that included violating passport laws and "trafficking in humans." Police identified the vessel that brought the Tamils to Canada as the Aurigae, a 425- ton West German ship that flies the Honduran flag. The telltale clue: the Aurigae's owners had recently bought three lifeboats belonging to the cruise ship Regina Maris. Though attempts had been made to sand off the name, the words Regina Maris...
...Canadian Coast Guard vessel Leonard Cowley is en route to the site to transfer the victims and take them to St. John's or another suitable port, Whitehead said. Heavy fog was reported in the area...