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...government officials crowded the dock at Pôrto de Santana, a steamy little town on the north channel of Brazil's Amazon delta. Then up the river it came: Venezuela's hijacked freighter Anzoátegui (TIME, Feb. 22). On the deck stood a triumphant Wismar Medina Rojas, 28, and his eight fellow hijackers-all members of Venezuela's Castroite Armed Forces of National Liberation...
Then Silence. The ringleader was Wismar Medina Rojas. 28, second mate aboard the Anzoátegui. Smuggling eight FALN gunmen aboard the freighter, he surprised the rest of the 36-man crew. In a series of gloating radio messages, he identified himself and his henchmen, said that captain and crew were unharmed. Then silence from the Anzoátegui presumably on its way to Cuba and a propaganda triumph for Fidel Castro...
...public, the publishers and Judge Harold Medina and his little band of serious fact-finders have contented themselves with condemning Powers. To be sure, his refusal to negotiate seriously the issues of wages and benefits is maddening and inexcusable; and the typographers' wage demands are excessive. They are asking an $18-a-week wage increase, $10 more than the Guild won in its strike last month. (On the other band, his demand for a contract expiration date coinciding with the Guild's is perfectly legitimate, since no union should be hamstrung by the pressures of another union's contract...
Such measures promised only to extend a shutdown that had already lasted scandalously long. The most impressive agency actively seeking a solution to the strike was an ad hoc board with no power whatsoever. This was the Board of Public Accountability, a panel of three judges-Harold R. Medina, Joseph O'Grady, David W. Peck-appointed by U.S. Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz last week to hear witnesses from both sides. I.T.U...
After three days of testimony, the judges reached their conclusion. Although Federal Judge Harold Medina,* 74, fiery chairman of the panel, might have preferred stronger language, the panel left no doubt about whom it held accountable...