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NEW ORLEANS — A federal
peals court said Tuesday Coast
lard ships have the legal right to
ard foreign vessels in interna-
al waters 200 miles off the U.S.
ast to search for contraband.
A three-judge panel made the rul-
in upholding conspiracy to im-
rt marijuana convictions against
^Colombians. Convictions for con-
iracy to distribute the drug in the
lited States were overturned.
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rested after the Coast Guard
boarded a freighter in interna
tional waters off the coast of
Florida and found 54 tons of
marijuana packed in burlap and
plastic sacks in the holds.
The search and arrests came after
federal drug agents received a tip
that one of the defendants was seek
ing a vessel to rendezvous with the
Exercise good,
but not cure-all
United Press International
DALLAS — Medical research cannot prove exercise will lengthen
a person’s life, but doctors participating in a panel discussion
provided numerous hints that active people are healthier than inact
ive people.
“Thousands of studies attempting to measure the benefits of lead
ing active lives have proved inconclusive,’ said Dr. Jere H. Mitchell,
professor of internal medicine and physiology at the University of
Texas Southwestern Medical School.
“Doctors do know that heart attacks are dropping as exercise in
creases. And doctors know that risk factors tend to take care of them
selves. For example, blood pressure drops and smokers tend to quit
(when they start running).”
Mitchell andvtwo other physicians Tuesday discussed “The Exer
cise Prescription” during a session of the 51st scientific meeting of the
American Heart Association.
All of the doctors agreed active lives were preferable to sedentary
lives in the reduction of risk factors related to cardiovascular diseases,
but all were concerned that people would expect too much from
exercise, or that they would undertake an exercise program without
exploring the problems.
“There are rocks along the road for many people who take part in
this activity,” said Dr. James P. Knochel, professor of internal
medicine at the University of Texas Health Science center.
“Water depletion, the development of high body temperatures and
the death of skeletal muscle which can dissolve and release contents
into the circulatory system are potential sources of sudden death
(while running.)”
He said women do not encounter as many risks while running as
men. He said females have less trouble with body heat, are lighter
and seem to have more sweat glands. He said all of his patients with
“dead muscle’ problems except one were men.
Dr. V.F. Froelicher, director of cardiac rehabilitation and exercise
laboratories at the University of California-San Diego, cited a recent
study of San Francisco longshoremen that said people double their
risk of coronary disease by leading inactive lives.
Women’s rights issue
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■ LONDON — For a lady who sur-
■ved a nine-month solo voyage
Bound the world and a capsize
|,000 miles from land, women’s
Jits are not an issue.
T didn’t sail around the world for
[omen, ’ said Naomi James, the
i-year-old rookie sailor who in
|une became the first woman to cir-
imnavigate the globe alone via
ape Horn. “It was not a case of
omen’s rights, just that men had
ready done it and I saw no reason
ecause I was a woman that I
louldn t be able to do it.”
The tall, slim blonde set the rec-
d for solo sailing around the
[odd, clipping two days off the
||/4-day record of Sir Frances
hichester, when she brought her
xpress Crusader” triumphantly
to Dartmouth harbor in the south
England on June 8.
I really don’t think I’ve done
oything exceptional,” she told a
rowd of 600 women gathered by
pedal invitation for the annual
ihmen of the Year luncheon at
ondon’s Savoy Hotel. “I just took
at possibility and carried it out.
Still, the chances she took would
ave daunted a less intrepid person,
he left England with only two
ears sailing experience, gained
rom husband Robert, a former
iritish Merchant Navy officer and
irofessional yachtsman. The 15-ton,
3-foot-long yacht she sailed
single-handed, was designed for a
crew of eight to 10.
But the question of physical abil
ity to handle the vessel didn’t worry
her.
“I’ve always been strong as a
horse. And sailing doesn’t depend
on physical strength but on timing,”
she said.
What could have been demoraliz
ing, but wasn’t, was the loneliness.
“One’s world is contained to such
a small unit,” she said. “Survival is
what one is limited to.” Her clear
blue eyes were far away for a mo
ment as she thought back on the ex
perience.
“I guess you could say my sol
itude was similar to that experi
enced by prisoners. But I chose to
be alone, and I could do what I
liked,” — mostly reading — biog
raphies, antique books, novels.
There was the one terrible mo
ment when, 2,000 miles off Cape
Horn, her rigging damaged, out of
radio contact for almost a week, and
in threatening weather, she decided
to turn back to New Zealand, 3,000
miles away for repairs.
“Then the boat capsized, but the
mast, with my makeshift rigging,
held up, and the boat, as it’s de
signed to do, righted itself. That’s
when I lost my fear — because it
had been fear that decided me to go
back, seeing waves that could kill
you cresting and breaking in the dis
tance. From then on it was easy,”
she said.
freighter Labrador on the high seas
for a marijuana transaction.
The 13 Colombians appealed, say
ing the Coast Guard had no author
ity to board a foreign ship at sea and,
if that authority did exist, it would
violate international laws governing
the high seas.
Judge Alvin Rubin, in writing the
decision, said the legal issues involv
ing search and seizure at sea were
unclear.
“At the heart of this case lies the
question, ‘May the U.S. Coast
Guard validly board a foreign vessel
carrying contraband intended for
delivery to this country while the
vessel is in international waters, ar
rest its crew for conspiracy to violate
the laws of the U.S. and seize its
cargo?”’ Rubin said.
“Like the seas where the vessel
was boarded, the problem is deep
and shark-infested," Judge Alvin
Rubin said.
“Like the seas where the vessel
was boarded, the problem is deep
and shark-infested,” he said. In a
19-page opinion quoting constitu
tional, international and criminal
laws, Rubin said the Coast Guard
can board foreign ships.
He said the Coast Guard’s author
ity extends “to persons whose acts
have an effect within the sovereign
territory even though the acts them
selves, occur out of it.”
The 5th Circuit said a 1958 treaty
codifying intemation laws regarding
the seas — Convention on the High
Seas forbids the boarding of a
foreign merchant ship on the high
seas by a warship unless there are
reasonable grounds for suspecting
that the ship in engaged in piracy,
slave trade or refuses to show its
flag.
But Colombia never has ratified
the treaty, making it inapplicable to
the case, Rubin said.
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