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Fish Trap. As such resorts go, Las Cruces is not expensive. What keeps it the preserve of the very rich is its location. A private plane or, failing that, a power cruiser, is the only way to get there with any semblance of convenience. There are nearly always four or five planes parked on the dirt runway, and on one occasion, the number reached...
...among the military stiffened against him. Per&243;n sent mobs of his descamisados to burn the high-toned Jockey Club, the Radical and Socialist Party headquarters, nine Roman Catholic churches. Fed up at last, the military rose against him in September 1955. When it seemed that a navy cruiser might fire on Buenos Aires, he fled aboard a Paraguayan gunboat...
...underline his contempt for U.S. public opinion, President Sukarno, then sent his air force chief of staff to Moscow. There he urgently requested speedier delivery of Soviet jet planes, subs and a battle cruiser so he could get on with the "liberation" of West New Guinea...
...equipped, 3,000-man army, which Nehru had said was "massing menacingly," had other ideas. Only real show of Portuguese resistance was put up by the 1,783-ton sloop Afonso de Albuquerque. Steaming out of Marmagão harbor, the little frigate exchanged fire with an Indian cruiser and two destroyers for 45 minutes. Her captain badly wounded, the crippled ship was finally beached. Less than two days after Indian troops crossed the frontier, the Portuguese surrendered. The night after the surrender in Pangim, a happy Sikh infantryman lay in a drunken sleep outside the governor general...
...security agents went to Venezuela by the score. The U.S. cruiser Northampton was ordered to stand by off Caracas, ostensibly as a communications ship but actually loaded with a detachment of U.S. marines. On his part, Betancourt ordered a roundup of known agitators; some 2,000 were collared and tossed into jail for the period of the Kennedy visit. Betancourt also ordered that thousands of Caracas cops and Venezuelan army troops be posted along the Kennedys' route into Caracas from the airport...