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...while, public outrage mounts. In the north coast town of Puerto Plata last week, news spread that two former Trujillo secret police agents were about to flee to Haiti aboard a Dominican freighter. Before long an angry crowd had gathered at the dock, hurling stones at the ship, screaming for the pair to be handed over. An army unit arrived, took the men from the ship to the local garrison. The mob followed, still protesting, and the soldiers reacted in familiar Dominican fashion-a burst of machine-gun fire killed one man and wounded three. Next day, in the city...
BOOKS Best Reading Ship of Fools, by Katherine Anne Porter. The ship is a German passenger-freighter that steams from Veracruz to Bremerhaven in 1931; the allegory is that this and all passages of the world's voyage are dismal; the art is consummate...
...year is 1931. A German passenger-freighter, the Vera (the name cruelly suggests "truth") sails from Vera Cruz, bound for Bremerhaven. It is. of course, a floating metaphor, no less effective because it is obvious: the "ship of the world, bound for eternity," as the author explains at the outset...
Into the coffee port of Santos last week steamed the Dutch freighter Ruys. Aboard was ex-President Jānio Quadros, 45, whose petulant resignation seven months ago plunged Brazil into chaos, disillusion and disrepair. He came home in triumph. When the Ruys docked, Jānio, tanned, a bit flushed, and about 10 lbs. heavier than when he sailed away last August, walked into a swarm of 10,000 almost fanatic fans...
Built originally as a small, tough freighter for lugging supplies to Air Force bases in the Arctic, and named after a northern star often used in navigation, Eltanin was refitted to the Antarctic scientists' tastes. Her holds are stuffed with well-equipped laboratories. Above, she bristles with the strange apparatus that researchers use to draw new knowledge...