Photographing Brazil's Yanomami
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The Gulf of Omuz
Ships carrying forty per cent of the industrialized world daily oil needs out through the straits. Iran and irak were locked in a long, brutal war, and the gulf had become an extension of the battlefield. Iraki forces had hit ships, especially tankers, going to and from iran in response,. iran was hitting ships servicing irach and its arab allies like kwait. But alec's last has the much more close up of one sailor's ordeal. In november 19 87, florentine datch and botter was a young engineer working on a nine thousand ton rumanian cargo ship, the fundulia. With a crew of 30
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