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...others. They grabbed more than 30 guards as hostages, then locked the gates shut against a gathering force of more than 1,000 heavily armed police, state troopers and National Guardsmen. Rejecting surrender demands from prison officials, the convicts shouted instructions back from the captured central watchtower through makeshift megaphones. They demanded, and were allowed, outside lawyers and observers of their own choice to help them bargain with state authorities...
...already been clandestinely connected by chipping away the mortar so that bricks could be removed and replaced with ease. Holes had also been drilled in the end cells on each floor, allowing the Tupamaros to move from their third-floor cells to the second and first floors on makeshift ladders of blankets and wood. By the time the break took place, a tunnel had already been dug leading from a ground-floor cell and under the prison wall to the Rial house. Prison officials, who later discovered picks, shovels and heavy-duty drills, said that some of the dirt...
...might want to emigrate, since the Cubans are given preference under the terms of the quota system. Canceling the airlift will likely bring an increase in derring-do attempts to cross the Florida Straits, which 14,684 Cuban adventurers have navigated since 1959 in everything from motorboats to makeshift rafts...
Something Wrong. So it goes. There is a constant struggle for money and education. Natural outlaws, all the Bishop women steal when they feel they must. What with their improvised clothes and makeshift domestic solutions, they seem like Little Women turned inside out. In fact, the girls stage an amateur production of the novel in which Loco plays both Beth and Amy. She also plays both in her own life. Like Beth, she dies. Like Amy, she has a tantalizing streak of amorality...
...turned out to hear speeches by Liberal Party candidates for Manila's mayoralty and for eight of the country's 24 Senate seats. It was a festive occasion; balloons floated through the evening air and spectators waved fans printed with the candidates' names and slogans. The makeshift stage, built with old kerosene drums and boards, was crammed with Liberal Party officials, the smiling candidates and their wives...