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...become revolutionary headquarters of the Americas, with guns, boats, planes and men to man them all for the buying. In April Nicaraguan exiles boldly hijacked a C46 transport at Miami International Airport and flew off in an abortive assassination try against President Luis Somoza. In July a boatload of revolutionaries from Miami stormed ashore in Haiti only to be riddled by President null Duvalier's army. The next day Dominican rebels were nabbed loading arms on another C46 in Miami, apparently with the suicidal intention of invading Dictator Rafael Trujillo's ironclad state. And for every expedition caught...
...quicklime within the walls of Pentonville Prison. Casement was hanged for treason in 1916, three months after the Dublin uprising of Easter Week. In the midst of World War I, he had landed from a German submarine on the coast of Kerry, ostensibly to foment rebellion. A boatload of rifles was to be landed after him but the vessel was intercepted by British warships; Casement was spotted by a farm girl and captured by a pair of village policemen...
...British merchant marine have borne that ensign proudly over all the world's oceans. But last week some swabbies from the Cunard liner Queen Mary drifted onto a lee shore and scuttled their pride in one of the dockside saloons of Manhattan's Twelfth Avenue. A boatload of deck apes from the S.S. United States, led by deadeye "Tex" Rozelle, challenged the visitors to a round of darts, and whipped the limeys at their own sport, five games to four. Britannia's seapower had not known such disgrace since the United States captured the North Atlantic speed...
...many a Rongelapese who left his home long before the H-bomb blast occurred had decided to return to it. Since island law provides that every member of a Rongelap family, whether living there or not, is entitled to a share of land, the Navy found itself returning a boatload of 275 Rongelapese to the atoll in place of the 82 it originally carried...
...indiscriminately. When its harvest turned out to be only unrest and barren rice fields, Dictator Ho Chi Minh tried to mend the error by firing Party Boss Truong and circulating a letter which promised drastic liberalization of his regime. Last week, at the sprawling seaport town of Tourane, a boatload of refugees from the Communist North stepped ashore in free South Viet Nam to tell a fuller story of the anti-Red uprisings...