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...eight days the Communists had led the Venezuelan and U.S. navies a merry chase, ducking south to Brazil when everyone thought they were headed north to Cuba, ignoring U.S. Navy orders to turn back when they were spotted by search planes, finally scooting into Brazilian waters when pursuing destroyers drew near. Now, smartly turned out in clean khakis, blue berets and FALN arm bands, the hijackers made a production of surrendering the Anzotegui and its 36-man crew to the Brazilians. Venezuela would get the ship and the crew back, and the hijackers would probably get political asylum, despite Venezuelan...
...parents send their children to school," says Djalma Maranhão, mayor of Natal in Brazil's impoverished Northeast. In Brazil alone, some 3 billion glasses of milk a year are distributed in 25,000 public schools. At the end of a three-month period, reports one Brazilian teacher, most of her pupils gained at least five pounds. With plenty of surplus food where this came from, Food for Peace Director Richard W. Reuter ex pects that within a year the U.S. will be helping to feed one-third of Latin America's schoolchildren...
...question was how to stop the Anzoátegui. Navy planes flashed blinker signals ordering the vessel to head for Puerto Rico. No answer from the Anzoátegui, as it plowed steadily southward toward Brazil, where, in the words of a government official, "asylum is a Brazilian tradition.'' When the hijackers ignored the orders to change course, the planes swooped down to fire rockets nearby. The hijackers seemed to be in for a rough time...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Feb. 17--The hijacked Venezuelan freighter under chase by U.S. and Venezuelan warships stopped tonight near an island off the Brazilian coast...
...settlements negotiated by the Brazilian government in advance of court rulings, will probably follow similar patterns. On the ITT deal, for example, the Brazilian government will come across with $7,300,000. More than $3,600,000 of this has already been paid to ITT in American dollars; the rest will come in Brazilian cruzeiros as loans to Standard Eléctrica, S.A., ITT's manufacturing subsidiary in Rio de Janeiro, for plant expansion and modernization. In its negotiations, American & Foreign Power is asking for $8 million to $10 million...