Word: 6b
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...6b. Eriksonian Psychologist...
Venezuelan agents promptly loaded him aboard a chartered DC-6B, flew him home to a maximum-security cell in San Juan de los Morros prison, 50 miles southwest of Caracas. Though P.J. kept telling anyone who would listen that he would be killed when he got home, President Betancourt promised that he would be treated "just like any common criminal, and will be given the same rights...
...scene at Miami International Air port was sadly familiar. A Pan American DC-6B rolled to a halt, and TV cameras panned in as 115 refugees filed from the plane. But these passengers were from Franç Duvalier's Haiti - not Castro's Cuba-and they were the first of 1,300 U.S. citizens advised by the State Department to leave because of continued deterioration on the small Caribbean island. In a week of urgent diplomatic maneuver and in an atmosphere of violence and vengeance, everyone waited to see whether the dictator who calls himself "Papa Doc" would...
...crashed near Lima last November, ten Cubans were on the plane, and Castro rushed a 27-man delegation to pick up the pieces. But the Peruvians collected the evidence first, including documents reportedly detailing guerrilla activities in Brazil. Last week a Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano DC-6B crashed in the Andes on a flight from Arica. Chile, to La Paz, Bolivia...
...some mechanics were writing maintenance reports to show repairs and checkups that were never done; pilots were flying more than the legal eight hours at a stretch; flight crew training standards were minimal. In addition, non-sked business practices were sometimes downright dubious. President Airlines, which operated a DC-6B that crashed last year off Shannon, killing 83 passengers, got into the business by buying the air carrier certificate of a dormant nonsked...