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Such statistics have long led U.S. authorities in Saigon to pooh-pooh the idea of offshore routes as a major supply source for the Viet Cong. But when a 300-ton, steel-hulled freighter out of North Viet Nam's port of Haiphong was sunk by air bombardment last February in Vungro Bay (TIME, March 5), U.S. Navy advisers began reassessing things. The Vungro ship carried 100 tons of Viet Cong cargo, ranging from medical supplies to heavy artillery, and nobody knew how many other ships had made it in to the coast. With continued air interdiction of North...
...Outright rejection of the Soviet arms. Just before the freighter Fizik Lebedev was due to arrive last week, a vanguard of 17 Russian "technicians" flew in from Moscow. One was reportedly a general, and all seemed to have in mind a lengthy stay. Not so. Jomo called in the Soviet ambassador, told him to send back his tanks, guns and technicians. Later he explained to a press conference: "All the arms are old, secondhand, and would be of no use to the modern army of Kenya...
...missiles from Russia, and the weapons were shipped to Egypt to await transshipment. Greek Cypriot missile crews, officered by "volunteers" from the Greek army who have worked with similar missiles in NATO, trained for months in Egypt. Last week reliable reports said that the missiles were loaded onto a freighter in Alexandria, and there the mystery begins. One version has it that the ship never left port. Another maintains that the freighter sailed but was turned back by units of the U.S. Sixth Fleet that constantly patrol the seas around Cyprus. A third version insists that the freighter docked...
...Fools, now translated into English, set sail two years before Katherine Anne Porter's symbolically freighted liner made its voyage. Argentine Novelist Julio Cortazar's passengers are lottery winners whose prizes are paid vacations on a cruise ship. But they are hustled on to a strange freighter, destination unknown. Aboard ship, the strangeness continues. An officer announces that for the present the stern of the vessel must be barred to passengers for technical reasons. What reasons? The officer explains to them that two of the ship's company are ill with a rare form of typhus...
...military hardware is about 20 to 1. The Turkish Cypriots own no ports and have to depend on relatively rare shipments by submarine from Turkey. To add to the ports they control, the Greek Cypriots have built a new one at Boghaz, north of Famagusta. Last month an Egyptian freighter with its name and homeport covered with burlap docked at Boghaz and unloaded five Soviet-made torpedo boats. Early this month 32 Soviet tanks arrived at Boghaz...