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...daring coup on the high seas. FALN agents had just hijacked the 3,127-ton government-owned freighter Anzoátegui only a few hours after it left the port of La Guaira bound for Houston and New Orleans. Betancourt might have expected something of the sort. Though the pro-Castro group is not powerful enough to overthrow Venezuela's President, it does its best to embarrass him-particularly since he is scheduled to make a state visit to the U.S. this week. In the campaign, FALN terrorists have been shooting up police cars, setting fire to U.S. businesses...
...Defense Department reported that a Navy ship, the Josiah Willard Gibbs, was within 20 miles of the Anzoategul and would keep the freighter under surveillance but would not take any other action...
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...
...French freighter Mont Blanc, en route from New York to Bordeaux, entered the Halifax roadstead on the morning of Dec. 6. The Mont Blanc was only a 3,000-tonner, but its cargo was something more than mere ammunition. Every usable square foot of cargo space was crammed with raw explosives-200 tons of TNT and 2,300 tons of lyddite, which is more powerful than TNT. On deck, reeking like an Esso station, were 35 tons of benzole in drums stacked three high...
Sizzling Waves. A Norwegian freighter, the Imo, was coming the other way through the Halifax Narrows that morning. The two ships went into a clumsy dance like people trying to pass on a sidewalk. When they ultimately collided, the Norwegian ship gashed the bows of the Mont Blanc and broke open some of the benzole drums. The fluid ran out over the deck and poured down into the hold. The Norwegian ship disengaged, and, as steel scraped steel, sparks ignited the benzole. The Mont Blanc blazed fire for a full 25 minutes before the explosion. The French crew abandoned ship...