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...intended, the operator did not know. A later message said that the pair "stated from the beginning that if the Cambodian government would not seize the vessel, they would scuttle it." The radioman gave the names of the hijackers: Clyde W. McKay, 25, of Escondido, Calif., and Alvin L. Glatkowski, 20, of Long Beach, Calif...
...territorial waters safe from the pursuing U.S. Coast Guard cutter Mellon, which had been ordered by Admiral John Hyland, commander of the Pacific Fleet, to observe her movements. Just before the coup d'état against Prince Norodom Sihanouk (see WORLD), Cambodia granted political asylum to McKay and Glatkowski. At week's end, the Eagle rode at anchor off Sihanoukville, still in Cambodian custody...
Familial opinion on Glatkowski was divided. His stepfather, Ralph Hagan, a retired Navy man, described Glatkowski as a "hippie-yippie who hated the police, the war in Viet Nam and the United States." In Long Beach Alvin's young wife, Florence, an expectant mother, maintained that "Alvin was not a hippie. He wore his hair moderately long. He didn't like the Viet Nam War and all that, but he could never have done what they...
Interviewed by Keyes Beech of the Chicago Daily News, the rescued crewmen on the Rappahannock hooted at reports that McKay and Glatkowski might have acted out of political motives. One said that neither of them could tell "Marx from Lenin." The majority opinion was that both were high on pot, as they had been all through the voyage...
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