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Planned Withdrawal. In Buffalo, Carmelo J. Giambra, one of the gunmen who robbed the Linwood Branch of the Liberty Bank of $23,775, was arrested and identified, pleaded guilty after he returned six days later in a brave attempt to open a savings account...
...World War II, Carmelo Jurissevich was a tough-minded and tough-sinewed partisan who fought with Tito against the Germans. But being a Croatian peasant who treasured freedom and hated authority, he had no use for Tito's postwar Communist dictatorship. On the inevitable night in 1949 when Tito's secret police came after him, Carmelo and his younger brother Emil fled to Trieste, only a thump ahead of the knock at the door. From their haven just across the border, Carmelo and Emil set up an overland express, guiding Yugoslavs to freedom. Before the year...
...take anyone who wants to get out," promised Carmelo. And for eight years he did. A good thousand men and women-Yugoslavs or Italians caught on the wrong side by the map makers-owe him their freedom. To fugitives who protested fearfully when he picked up others en route, he replied, "As many as we are, we all go, or nobody goes." To those who tried to pay him (the standard border-running price is $160), Carmelo laughed and said softly, "You'll need it later. Come on, let's go." Once, in the troop-infested area around...
Between missions, Carmelo, 35, always armed, shifted in a shadowy world of refugee camps, empty attics, slivovitz bars and rented rooms (which he liked to share with grateful refugee girls). No one on either side of the border ever betrayed him. But last week Carmelo's luck ran out. In the Carso hills above Trieste, where he knew every twisted pathway, sheltered wood and hidden gully, Carmelo was leading a couple and their two children to safety when Tito's red-starred "people's guards" opened fire with submachine guns. Carmelo returned the fire with his Beretta...
...government sniffed outside interference. Said President Urriolagoitia darkly: "This rebellion has international roots." In Buenos Aires, the Bolivian ambassador called on Juan Perón's new Foreign Minister, young Hipolito Jesus Paz, four times within twelve hours. How was it, he demanded, that the M.N.R.'s Carmelo Cuellar, thought to be safely out of mischief in Argentina, had turned up at the head of a rebel column...