In Heyerdahl's open letter to the Secretary of the United Nations he said in part:Today we burn our proud ship... to protest against inhuman elements in the world of 1978... Now we are forced to stop at the entrance to the Red Sea.
In his Open Letter to the UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, Heyerdahl explained his reasons:Today we burn our proud ship ... to protest against inhuman elements in the world of 1978 ... Now we are forced to stop at the entrance to the Red Sea.