Word: freighter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...success at guerrilla warfare in the hills, failed miserably in a much touted plan to disrupt last year's elections. Yet it is unparalleled in nasty little headline-grabbing stunts. Besides random killings and small acts of sabotage, F.A.L.N. terrorists have stolen five Louvre Museum masterpieces, hijacked one freighter on the high seas, kidnaped one visiting Spanish soccer star, and kidnaped one U.S. colonel. Last week they made it two U.S. colonels...
...Cuban exiles are quick to cheer any small foray in their lopsided fight against Fidel Castro. But last week there was one blazing action in the waters off Cuba for which no one wanted to claim responsibility. It involved the 1,600-ton Spanish freighter Sierra Aranzazu, some 40 miles northwest of Great Tnagua Island in the Bahamas, bound for Havana with a cargo of garlic, cognac, chicken coops and plows...
...were mortally wounded. The rest of the crew abandoned ship, which was now on fire. Fourteen hours after the attack, the lifeboat carrying all 20 crew members, eight of them wounded, two dead and one soon to die, was spotted by a U.S. Coast Guard plane, and a Dutch freighter sped to their rescue, carrying them to Great Inagua...
...Artime, a leader in the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion, now operates out of Central America, is believed to have some dozen torpedo boats armed with 57-mm. recoilless rifles and other weapons. Two other exile possibilities: the smaller November 30 Organization, which says it shelled a Cuban freighter homeward-bound from Canada two weeks ago; and the Comandos Mambises, which claims to have attacked a Russian vessel in the Cuban port of Cabanas early this month...
Although all three vehemently deny it, chances are that one of the groups staged the attack on the Sierra Aranzazu, either as a warning to nations trading with Castro, or in a case of mistaken identity, thinking it was the Cuban freighter Sierra Maestra, which had sailed through the same area the week before...