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...Johnson was one of 1,619 U.S. prisoners who were herded aboard a Japan-bound freighter. Packed shoulder to shoulder below decks in 120° heat, they were given neither food nor water, drank one another's urine to survive. While the ship was still off the Philippines, U.S. bombers blasted it, killing some 300 of the American prisoners. Survivors who swam ashore were hauled by boxcars to Lingayen Gulf and loaded aboard another freighter, which was forced to dock at Formosa with engine trouble. Six days later, U.S. planes bombed the island, killing outright 100 more Americans...
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Kirk Douglas again, this time with Nick Adams in The Hook, about a North Korean pilot imprisoned aboard an American freighter...
...climbed into a lifeboat intending to reboard her astern, but decided instead to carry injured passengers in the boat to the rescue ship Finnpulp. Another reason for accompanying them, his lawyer maintained, was to ask the Finnpulp to radio an S O S to other ships-which the Finnish freighter had already done. Many crewmen accused their captain of deserting them, but Voutsinas vowed that he had returned, directed the rescue and had been the last to leave the Castle, his first passenger command. "It was the best ship I ever served on," he insisted. "It was in perfect condition...
...Florida in any kind of weather, in anything that floats-from stolen fishing boats to rafts made of inner tubes and scrap lumber, running the treacherous gauntlet of Castro patrol boats and helicopters. In the past four years, 8,300 have made the perilous journey by water. A British freighter captain who puts into Havana estimates that for every refugee who evades Castro's patrols, three die. He calls the 40-mile stretch extending from the northern coast "Machine Gun Alley," and says: "Time and again, we come across small boats drifting helplessly. And when we look inside...
Mayan got its second chance this June, when the Cuban freighter Aracelio Iglesia collided with a Norwegian ship near the Panama Canal and had to be towed to the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone for repairs. Again Mayan filed for attachment, again the Czech embassy intervened, and again-last month -the claim was dismissed...