The World - News from Dec. 5, 1986

A fire that broke out on an Icelandic cargo ship in the mid-Atlantic is being investigated as possible sabotage by anti-whaling environmental groups, Icelandic police said. The fire began in a car being transported by the Hofsjokull, which is used to carry frozen fish to U.S. markets, and followed anonymous threats to the ship’s captain, a police spokesman said. The crew managed to quickly put out the fire. No group claimed responsibility, but last month, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said it was behind the scuttling of two Icelandic whaling vessels and the sabotaging of Iceland’s only whaling station.