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...Paris has blocked $7 million worth of imported New Zealand lamb brains to pressure Wellington into releasing two French intelligence officers involved in the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, the flagship of the international environmental organization Greenpeace. A Greenpeace photographer was killed in the incident, which occurred while the vessel was docked in Auckland harbor last July...
...many foreigners suddenly threatened, the Soviets cooperated with the British and other Western embassies in evacuating refugees. The Soviets even dispatched a liaison officer to the British royal yacht Britannia; he remained on board as the ship helped one group of evacuees after another get to Djibouti. The vessel had been bound for New Zealand to be on hand for Queen Elizabeth II's visit there next month, but was quickly recruited for the rescue operation. Other British naval vessels, including the frigate Jupiter, were not allowed by the South Yemenis to sail within the twelve-mile territorial limit...
Plaques are made up largely of fat, so they tend to absorb different colors of light than the protein-rich blood vessel tissue. By using a special laser beam that reacts especially well with the plaques and not with the surrounding tissue, the doctors have had unusual success in destroying fat deposits...
...incident came nine days after Miroslav Medvid, a seaman aboard a Soviet grain ship, jumped twice into the Mississippi River in an apparent bid for freedom. U.S. immigration officials returned him to the Soviet vessel. The ship was detained near New Orleans until Medvid was allowed an interview to discover his intentions. By the time the interview took place last week, the Soviet sailor said he wanted to go home. The U.S. release of Medvid to the Soviets drew a chorus of protest from more than a dozen Congressmen...
...Barry Clifford. A high school teacher turned treasure hunter, Clifford, 40, found the wreck in 1982. He was convinced that it was the Whydah, but officials of the Massachusetts board of underwater archaeological resources wanted proof. Last week they had it. After Clifford brought up the vessel's 18-in. bronze bell, the corrosion was chipped away, and the ship's name was uncovered. Clifford had made history: the Whydah is the only sunken pirate ship ever found. The glory of that discovery is Clifford's. But a fourth of the value of the ship's treasure that could...