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Lake Success ship owner advocates arming crews

The head of a Lake Success-based company that had one of its vessels attacked by Somali pirates said Tuesday that he favored arming the crews aboard commercial fleets.

"We need to modernize our laws so companies like ours can protect our crews," Philip J. Shapiro, president and chief executive of Liberty Maritime, said in a phone interview before he testified Tuesday before a U.S. Senate...

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