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United Press International
PORT MANSFIELD — Canadian Don Starkell said
he planned a canoe trip from Winnipeg to the mouth of
the Amazon River as a learning experience for his two
sons, but the rigors of the rivers are teaching him a lot
too.
Already the family trio has paddled more than 3,300
miles down the Mississippi River and other waterways,
but Starkell said the odyssey had only begun.
"I’m not familiar with the tides at all,” he
Paddling down the Intracoastal Waterway fro-j
Orleans was tough, he said, because "the
unpredictable, we had a side wind and the
haved strangely."
But the biggest problem on the trip to Tec i
having to live so closely for an extended period®"
“Really, we won’t feel we’ve started the trip until we
leave Texas, ’’ he said recently when the three stopped in
Port Mansfield before moving on to nearby Brownsville
to rest and outfit their fiberglass canoe.
“Really, it’s the toughest part of the trip,” tic
said. “We eat, sleep and work together, and we
couple of tussels since we began. We re like
cooped up in a space capsule for months
But the canoe will keep moving, no mi
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Starkell, 47, and sons Dana, 19, and Jeff, 18, left
Canada June 1 on the trip they had planned for a decade.
They left Brownsville last week.
“My boys were just kids when we started talking
about this thing,’’ he said. “Now we couldn’t go back
even if we wanted; our home is rented out for the next
two years."
“We all know the trip is our No. 1 priority,"Si
said, “and even if we lose a member of our cm
keep going.”
He said he and his sons freqentiy are mistil
hippies because they have few opportunities!
baroer shops.
He said the journey originally was intended as an
educational experience for his sons but added, “I talk
about educating them — I’m learning a heck of a lot
myself. ”
Their travel plans call for them to hug the Mexican
coast until they reach the Orinoco River in Northern
Venezuela, then proceed inland through the jungles of
South America. Ultimately the party will reach the
Amazon River in Brazil and paddle downstream to the
river’s mouth at Belem, Brazil.
Starkell said they planned a side trip about halfway
down the coast of Central America, through the locks of
Panama and over to the Pacific Ocean for a couple of
days.
“We’re going to be pretty close,” he said. “We might
as well go to the Pacific, just to say we’ve been there.”
Starkell said he was familiar with canoeing along the
inland waterways, but the prospect of navigating the
Gulf of Mexico concerned him a bit.
“They think we re on drugs or something. Soia
always yelling at us to come ashore and get hip
said. “I always tell them, 'no thanks, were
high.’”
Near Corpus Christi, Starkell said, they heart
sounded like the voice of a preacher Ijoomingac!-
water from a house with a radio antenna towerinj
it.
“He was taking about longhaired, dope-smi
pies, and we were wondering if he was takingaba
the father said.
A few men in another boat later told them
“Brother RoIofF,” the Corpus Christi evangefe
Roloff.
Starkell said everyone wants to know howhea
sons plan to get back to Canada.
"We re not even worried about getting back,’’li
“The only way to finish this trip is to workatitai
time. It’s like rearranging the face of a mountae
just keep chipping at it until it begins to takes!
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FORT CHAFFEE, Ark. — By
overcoming bad weather, schedul
ing hangups and planes that couldn’t
always land on a construction-
shortened runway. State Depart
ment officials now say the airlift of
Cuban refugees from Fort McCoy,
Wis., will be finished today.
However, officials don’t expect a
total relocation to be complete until
Oct. 15.
Four flights Wednesday and four
today should bring the rest of about
2,900 Cubans from Wisconsin to
Fort Chaffee on time, said State De
partment deputy spokeswoman Syl
via Spencer.
apart from the general population,
she said.
Consolidation got off to a shaky
start last week when the first flight
from Florida was forced to land at
Little Rock Air Force Base because
the plane was too large for the run
way at Fort Smith Municipal Air
port, which had been shortene|
construction project.
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The refugee population at Chaffee
is now 5,179, following the transfer
of 447 Cubans Tuesday, and should
swell to about 9,600 when the con
solidation is finished. About 2,900
refugees from Fort Indiantown Gap,
Pa., will be moved to Arkansas in the
next phase of the relocation next
week.
Spencer also said officials appa
rently have reconciled the fate of 12
refugees who have been returned by
their sponsors and are staying at a
“halfway house” in nearby Barling,
Ark.
The U.S. Catholic Conference set
up a center for rejected refugees at
the Ranch House Motel, which con
tradicts the security arrangements
insisted upon by Gov. Bill Clinton,
who stipulated that returning re
fugees must live inside the base
rather than stay in local motels.
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morning, October 9, representatives from the Stehlin Cai
Research Foundation (Associated with St. Joseph’s Hospi
in Houston), will interview students interested in beginni
Co-op in January. They want to interview students majoi
in any of the sciences (including ANSC), pre-med, and Bll
or BE, and plan to hire 3-6 co-op students for the Spri
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and the positions are in Houston.
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Spencer said the Catholic Confer
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dozen refugees and intends to move
them out of the motel in a few days.
A total of 92 “level two” refugees,
those designated as potential troub
lemakers, have arrived from McCoy
and are being kept in a special area
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