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 TOKYO (AP) - Protesters scored a victory in a high-seas campaign to disrupt Japan's whale hunt in the Antarctic, forcing the fleet to a standstill Wednesday while officials scrambled to unload two activists who used a rubber boat to get on board a harpoon vessel.
The Australian government offered a solution to the standoff, announcing Thursday it will send the a ship to retrieve the men and return them to their anti-whaling vessel as soon as the details can be arranged.
The faceoff over the activists has escalated the annual contest between the fleet that carries out Japan's controversial whale hunt in southern waters and the environmentalist groups that try to stop it.
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