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...look in the trash can near the proofreaders' rest room. In both places were notes from the publicity-grabbing Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), a pro-Castro terrorist group that is trying to make things difficult for Venezuela's middle-reading President Rómulo Betancourt. The FALN's message: one of the government's ships is missing...
...daring coup on the high seas. FALN agents had just hijacked the 3,127-ton government-owned freighter Anzoátegui only a few hours after it left the port of La Guaira bound for Houston and New Orleans. Betancourt might have expected something of the sort. Though the pro-Castro group is not powerful enough to overthrow Venezuela's President, it does its best to embarrass him-particularly since he is scheduled to make a state visit to the U.S. this week. In the campaign, FALN terrorists have been shooting up police cars, setting fire to U.S. businesses...
...Betancourt's red-faced government sent Canberra jet bombers to search the Caribbean, called on the navies of all friendly nations to help find "the pirates.'' Venezuela itself has just six destroyers, of which four are slow and nearly obsolete. The only hope was the U.S. A day passed, then a second and a third, with only a false report of a sighting. Radio Havana weighed in with an offer of asylum for the hijackers; the vessel, said Castro gleefully, would be turned over...
...revolutionists--branded as pirates by the Betancourt government--had defied warning smoke rockets from a U.S. search plane yesterday and kept going...
Humphrey, like Keating, singled out Venezuela as one of the Latin-American countries most gravely menaced by Communist subversion. The Senate majority whip said Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt, due here Tuesday on a state visit, should be given assurances that the U.S. would not tolerate any sort of attack on his country...