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Typical of their frustration is the case of the Panamanian-based Mayan Line steamship company. Under the 1952 ruling, Mayan went into two U.S. courts in Louisiana with a $668,000 claim against Cuba for unpaid shipping charges, and won uncontested judgments in both. When defectors sailed a Cuban freighter into Norfolk harbor in 1961, Mayan was ready, attached the ship and its cargo of sugar bound for Russia. But the Czech embassy, caretaker for Castro in Washington, invoked sovereign immunity. The State Department assented, and the attachment was thrown out. (Backing up the doctrine was an informal agreement between...
Morituri starts off promising something nautical but nice. Tough British Agent Trevor Howard smoothly snares German Deserter Marlon Brando into agreeing to a perilous bit of World War II secret agentry. He must find and disarm the demolition charges placed on a German freighter, so that in the event of Allied capture, the Germans will not be able to scuttle their precious rubber cargo. Equipped with forged Nazi credentials and the suavest German accent since Erich von Stroheim. Brando climbs aboard the freighter, captained by Yul Brynner, and loses no time in going on the prowl...
...Panamanian freighter El Corral and onto Pier 27 in Belgium's port of Antwerp last week tramped 867 head of Texas cattle−on a one-way trip. They were the forerunners of a U.S. attempt to successfully export U.S. beef on the hoof to Europe, which has long had a prejudice against more easily transported frozen beef. The cattle were not the only American arrivals in European ports. U.S. farm exports are pouring into the Common Market at so fast a pace that they have become a major point of discord at Kennedy Round meetings between...
...publisher's idea was for Algren to write a meandering essay on Hemingway while taking a freighter trip to Asia, and for him to pad it out with descriptions of Oriental ports. "An essay on Ernest Hemingway was a labor to which I felt compelled," explains Algren. "Everyone else was acting so compulsively, I had to do something compulsive, too, or I wouldn't get invited to any more parties...
...troops hemming them in. One night a rebel motorboat in the Ozama River made life difficult for the 82nd Airborne. "Eventually," explained a laconic paratroop captain, "we got tired of that, so we sank it." In other action, the paratroopers blasted another motorboat and set fire to the freighter Santo Domingo, which rebels were using as a sniper's nest...