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Off the Record
And now Scud fried rice
BANGKOK A Bangkok restaurateur says his latest dish. "Iraqi fried rtee' shaped Hke a downed Send ndaatle. has become a big hit with customers, especially American
The Saigon Bakery, which speciahsea tn Vietnamese cuisine. has been offering the 60baht (2 40 US doHari dish since the GuM War started fast month.
Bad taste ? Certainly not. said restauranteur Vu VMQuoe:
It was Just a joke and I didn't plan to keep u long But M's doing very wefl." he said Monday "First people didn t wni to eat it. but now everybody wants to try It. especially the
The recipe is simple: Just sttr-fry sliced fruit. carrots oregano and bacon, then add rice and a scuttle fish to
Quae said customers preferred the Iraqi fried rtee to American fried rice, a Bangkok favorite since the Vietnam War. when thousands of US soldiers stopped over for rest and recreation. American fried rice contains ham. fried eggs chicken and a Frankfurter
He said no Iraqi customer had yet tried his new concoction. which he planned to keep serving until the war ends, may be in six months
Wool to soak Gulf oil spill
WELLINGTON - Special spheres of New Zealand wool which can effectively soak up 40 times I heir own weight tn oil will be used In the cleanup of oil spilled tn the Gulf officials said Friday, reports AP
The manufacturer. Donaghys Textilea Ltd., said tests proved successful on samples encased tn two 10-foot (3-meter) mesh booms sent to Saudi Arabia
Donaghys marketing manager Hugh Ross said the company was asked Thursday to immediately send 80 more booms.
The Olayan Trading Co. in Saud! Arabia, which is coordinating the entire cleanup. Is gearing up to buy bulk shipments and will send Its own cargo plane to coBet t 400 or 500 at a time until shipping routes reopen. Ross said
Donaghys had Just started making oil containment booms and oil absorption booms from wool balls when the war began last month.
Hoss said he expects the cleanup to take up to five years.
The booms exploit wool's natural ability to attract grease Researchers say wool has the rapacity to absorb up 40 times Its own weight in viscous oils Oil spill-hit birds heading for India
NEW DELHI - Migratory birds affected by oil spills in the Gulf are likely to head for Indtan shores this summer Instead of winging long distances to Siberia or Southern African, reports Reuter
Cranes are likely to avoid the war-hit Middle East "F1ywny‘ and detour to India's Kutch region, oronlgholotsts told reporters In Bombay Sunday.
Greater black-backed gulls and herring gulls from the Makaran coast of Iran and Pakistan arc also expected to reach Bombay soon. Press reports quoted an expert at Bombay's Natural History Society as saying.
" The gulls will make It to India even If they were marginally affected by the oil slick." SA Hussain said, but warned that It was already too late to save a majority of the birds presently In the spill zone.
He warned that If the Gulf war dragged Into March, when active migration commences, birds (lying through Iraq. Iran and Israel towards Siberia and South Africa via China will "Run into trouble".
Teams of Indian bird-watchers have stationed themselves tn the main roosting zones In India's south and east to receive the incoming birds, the expert said, adding that some flamingoes have already arrived from Iran's Lake Rezia at Kutch western state of Gujarat of the Arabian Sea.
Flamingo migrations to Indian lakes have shrunk over the years because of hunting tn Afghanistan and Pakistan and the past Iran-Iraq war Phone in the sky
CHICAGO — In September 1987, Pope John Paul picked up the telephone In his airliner above the United States and became the first world leader to use a pay phone tn the sky for a radio broadcast speech, reports Reuter
Now the alrfone Is gaining increasing popularity among ordinary business passengers.
Since the first inflight pay phones installed tn 1984. more than 9.4 million calls have been placed abroad commercial jetliners. Travellers on 16 airlines based in North America can phone home from more than 1.400 commercial jets.
Competition for customers in especially fierce among airlines these days, and the pay phone service seems on its way to becoming standard, industry officials say.