Word: warriorism
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...crew of the Rainbow Warrior for taking on the Soviet Union in its fight against the slaughter of whales [Aug. 1]. Perhaps next year Greenpeace, the environmental group that opposes whaling and ran the Rainbow Warrior expedition, can work on this side of the Bering Sea to stop the butchering of the poor walrus...
...means of mirrors so that it appears they are frolicking in a deep river. But there are inexplicable departures from the prevailing neoRomantic ethos, born of the director's fascination with stage gadgetry. For the Ride of the Valkyries in Die Walküre, Hall straps four warrior maidens to a slowly descending platform, while beneath them their sisters prepare the naked bodies of dead heroes for consignment to Valhalla. This mothership scene seems to have unaccountably wandered in from a production by, say, George Lucas...
...Rainbow Warrior is a tough old British trawler whose blunt bow has frequently poked into waters where it has not been welcome. It belongs to Greenpeace, an international environmental group that opposes whaling. Last week Greenpeace carried out its most daring protest yet. The ship narrowly escaped being captured, but seven Greenpeace members, six Americans and one Canadian, were detained by Soviet authorities...
...Commission in Brighton, England. With U.S. support, the commission aims to ban commercial whaling completely by 1986. Greenpeace believed that the Soviets were violating the commission's recommendation that only native groups be allowed to hunt the California gray whale. With 23 men and women aboard, the Rainbow Warrior steamed across the Bering Strait to the Siberian whaling village of Lorino. Six Greenpeace members went ashore to hand out leaflets to workers at the whale-processing plant. Suddenly a contingent of Soviet soldiers arrived and arrested the six. A Greenpeace member who was still aboard the Rainbow Warrior grabbed...
Minutes later two Soviet ships appeared and gave chase. "Getting quite hairy," the crew radioed Greenpeace headquarters in San Francisco. "They're playing chicken with us." Only after the Rainbow Warrior was well into international waters did the Soviet ships turn back. U.S. and Canadian officials interceded on behalf of the seven, and at week's end, Moscow released the protesters...