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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (12445)	12/2/2001 6:36:38 PM
From: axial	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi, Hawk - My reference to the incident should be viewed in the context of a specific "trigger" to subsequent actions by the Canadian government, and its people. The links, etc that you seek are another interesting story. The story was carried prominently in local newspapers; the ship's arrival at Port Hawkesbury was scheduled. Three years later, I began to research a book on the subject. In the course of that research, I visited libraries, contacted harbormasters, and checked newspaper archives. The story was gone. You will find no reference to it. You will find no reference in berthing records, though you may prove more adept than I. In the context of greater developments that followed, the matter is relatively unimportant. Its importance, to me, lies in the fact that in November 1973, I sat in the Student Union at Dalhousie University, in Halifax, and read a newspaper story about a ship, full of oil, that never arrived. So did many other Canadians. The thrust of my argument, and the flow of events after the first Oil Embargo, is well-documented. Even if you choose to doubt its truth, the disappearance of that event from archives does not alter what followed: those events are not in dispute. Regards, Jim