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...tanker to keep on going, and the Greek government, which had banned all oil shipments to Rhodesia, lifted the captain's papers, claiming that he was operating under an illegal Panamanian registration. Ignoring the hubbub, loanna V anchored a mile offshore. By then, a second Raphaely tanker, the Manuela, with another 16,000 tons of crude, was also sailing for Beira...
...seizing the Greek tanker Manuela, bound for Beira with 16,000 tons of oil, Britain has reinforced her sanctions against Ian Smith's regime. The British drew on a resolution passed by the Security Council to put an "armed party" on the Manuela. Had the tanker reached Beira, the oil would have flowed through a pipeline controlled by the Anglo-Portuguese Lonrho Company to the Rhodesian refinery in Umtali...
...place is Flushing Meadow, Long Island. There, in the Spanish Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, Manuela Vargas and her first-rate 16-member flamenco troupe hold forth four times a day. The raw, unbridled passion of their performance tops the fair's entertainment bill. Haughty as a peacock, La Vargas commands with a scowl that would intimidate a bandit. What she doesn't convey with her Goyaesque good looks, arching back and rippling feet, she says with her long serpentine arms and spidery hands...
...Seville-born Manuela first blossomed on the international scene when she won the prestigious Theater of Nations Festival Dance Award in Paris in 1963. Daughter of a cattle salesman, she is an amateur bullfighter and a "purebred" Andalusian gitana (gypsy), whose ancestors have made flamenco a way of life for more than three centuries. In today's Spain, many flamenco performers are not even gypsies-or dancers either...
TEATRO ESPANOL in Spain's pavilion has sparkling performances by Rosa Durán and the Zambra flamenco dancers, and Virtuosos Antonio Gades, Manuela Vargas, and Nana Lorca. It is the best entertainment at the fair, and only...