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to greet the ships and meet their venturesome crews. Above Columbia's Gloria receives visitors, with Argentina ' s Libertad behind and Romania' s Mircea across the way. And the beat goes on-below, in the ancient Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany, the Rickmer Rickmers, newly restored as a museum ship, receives the tall ships to celebrate the city's 800th birthday this past summer. Across the way from her lies the Kruzenshtern (USSR) built as the German cargo-carrier Padua in 1926, and over the festive tents lies West Germany's Gorch Fock. The mighty Kruzenshtern came to Operation Sail 1976 in New York, but missed 1986. It is to be hoped she will be back in New York in 1992. P EOPLE POURED OUT ONTO THE CITY PfERS
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