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...bound to produce collisions. A fortnight ago the confrontation grew more serious. While seeking shelter from a gale two miles off Iceland's coast, the unarmed British ocean-going tug Lloydsman was fired on by the Thor. Iceland says the Thor fired one shot, which struck the British vessel; Britain says the Icelandic boat fired three shots that missed...
Ever since militant members of the Irish Republican Army began exporting their campaign of violence from Ulster to Britain, Scotland Yard has suspected they were smuggling in explosives and weapons aboard an unlikely gunrunner: the 1,800-passenger liner Queen Elizabeth 2. In 1972 two of the vessel's kitchen porters were charged with possession of rifles and hand grenades on board, following one of the ship's stopovers in New York. An I.R.A. bomb factory was discovered last December in Southampton, the liner's home port, which has long been a center of I.R.A. activity...
...Musical Jubilee originated as a cruise-ship "entertainment." At last report, the St. James Theater was an chored at Manhattan's 246 West 44th St., but it may just possibly prove to be an ocean-going vessel...
Israel did have at least one cause for applause last week as a result of its accords with Sadat. For the first time since 1959, a ship with Israel-bound cargo was about to go through the Suez Canal: the Greek vessel Olympus, loaded with some 8,000 tons of cement from Rumania. In addition, Sadat figured in Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's decision to postpone his scheduled visit to the U.S. from November to December, or even later. Mainly, Rabin wishes to avoid U.S. pressure to negotiate an accord with Syria on the Golan Heights before...
...colossal spending binge, is in one dreadful financial mess. The most visible sign of it was outside Apapa, port for the capital city of Lagos. Last week no fewer than 406 ships of all shapes and sizes were backed up waiting their turn for dock space. At least one vessel has been stuck outside Apapa since last February. Maritime experts call it the worst shipping jam in modern history...