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...finishing second-to-last in their qualifying heat the day before. The Black and White finished well out of the top two, 1:15.02 behind the first-place Princeton ‘A’ boat and about 30 seconds behind the Georgetown ‘A’ vessel, and did not receive a berth in the grand finals. Radcliffe missed making the petite finals by a little less than six seconds...
...class of amphibious assault ships. Arthur's lawyers argued that the documents carried the lowest security classification, "confidential," and were of little value to the enemy. But Captain Edward Sheafer Jr., a senior intelligence officer in the U.S. Atlantic Command, identified the Blue Ridge as the key communications vessel for the Atlantic fleet and called the damage-control book "a bible for sabotage." As for the casualty reports, he said, "I would give my eye teeth to have the similar history of a Soviet class of ships...
...hole in the hull of the 130-ft. converted trawler as it lay anchored in the harbor at Auckland, New Zealand, on July 10. A crew member was killed in the blast. The flagship of Greenpeace, the environmental group that opposes nuclear testing and the killing of whales, the vessel was due to lead a flotilla of ships into the waters around Mururoa Atoll, 700 miles southeast of Tahiti, to protest French atomic tests in the area. As the Rainbow Warrior lay prow up in the harbor, New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange, himself a vocal opponent of nuclear testing...
Last week two French magazines accused the terrorists of being French government agents. VSD and L'Evénement du Jeudi charged that agents of the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE), France's CIA, had arranged the sabotage of the Greenpeace vessel. The accusation brought an immediate response from President François Mitterrand, who dispatched a letter to Lange. "The information that has been sent to us leads us to think that a link may exist between the French service and two persons implicated by New Zealand authorities in the affair of the Rainbow Warrior...
...years ago, the operation was hailed as a marvel of technical virtuosity and medical logic. Cerebral bypass surgery was designed to circumvent one of the most common causes of strokes: a blockage in one of the arteries that carry blood to the brain. To reroute blood around a blocked vessel, the surgeon uses a nearby, less vital artery to build a bypass road. Taking this detour, blood continues to flow to the brain, and the risk of a stroke's occurring is presumably lessened...