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Considering the summit's theme of world poverty and hunger, the setting for the conference was a trifle incongruous. Cancún is a lush, 14-mile-long island resort near the Yucatan Peninsula, studded with gleaming hotels and condominiums. Delegation leaders were assigned identical two-room suites, complete with terrace and Jacuzzi, in the pyramid-shaped Sheraton Hotel, hard by the Caribbean. On the day before the conference began, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos went waterskiing, while Reagan and his aides lolled away half an hour on the beach...
...wonderful to read about old Inca canals being put to good use again [Sept. 28]. The Yucatan peninsula and Guatemala also have ancient canals that might be restored, thus helping these poor areas become prosperous again...
...show of support was designed, in part, to forestall any chance that Belize, nestled between Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and Guatemala, might run into serious trouble even before it got a chance to enjoy its new status. Guatemala's hostile military regime has reasserted claims to the area dating back to an 1859 boundary treaty with Britain. In talks with Guatemalan officials earlier this year, Britain agreed to give Guatemala access to the Caribbean through Belize, but the negotiations subsequently broke down. Guatemala closed its borders with Belize and severed consular relations with Britain...
...sailing orders are sealed. Only the skipper. Commander Michael Murtagh, 40, and his executive officer, Lieut. Commander Andy Anderson, 33, know where Dauntless is headed. On this patrol, Murtagh's destination is the 135-mile-wide Yucatan Channel off Mexico's southeast coast. That is where, the captain has been told, he has the best opportunity to intercept a large shipment of U.S.-bound marijuana. Once past the channel, a smuggler has an excellent chance of reaching Florida or Louisiana, whose labyrinthine coastal waterways provide concealment for off-loading the precious cargo into smaller, speedier boats known...
Three days after sailing from Miami, Dauntless reaches the Yucatan. The next noon the lookout on the Big Eye reports through the voice tube to his captain: "I've got a sighting...