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...catalogue of disasters. The first international code came in 1914, two years after the sinking of the Titanic; the latest in 1960, four years after the loss of the Andrea Doria. The U.S., which has the world's most stringent regulations, adopted them only after the Morro Castle burned and sank off New Jersey in 1934. As a sequel to the fiery death this month of the cruise shipYarmouth Castle, shipowners may well be forced to comply with more meaningful safety standards...
...whom now had their chance for revenge. In the city of Matanzas, thousands of Cubans were penned up in the baseball stadium, and when they sent up a chant of protest, guards fired submachine-gun bursts over their heads. Sanitation was so bad in Havana's overcrowded Morro Castle that several prisoners fell sick. Doctors among the prisoners set up a makeshift dispensary in a dungeon once used by Spaniards for garrote executions; other prisoners held in a dry moat outside dug holes in the ground with shovels for makeshift toilets. In Havana's huge Blanquita Theater...
...Morro Flight. The dozen underground civic resistance groups of a few months ago are only now beginning to shake down into two major movements: the Democratic Revolutionary Front, headed by oldtime Autentico Politico Manuel ("Tony") Varona, and the younger, more aggressive People's Revolutionary Movement (MRP) of Manolo Ray, 34, Castro's former Public Works Minister. The Front operates from Miami. But the MRP is headquartered in Havana, where Ray, who went underground Aug. 23, is setting up an organization. A few weeks ago he put his engineer's brain to planning a jailbreak from Havana...
Airlines and free reservations at such luxury hotels as the Habana Hilton. At rum-punch receptions and over dinners of Morro crab, the friendly visitor soaks up heady talk of revolution, sometimes from the "maximum leader" himself...
Fire at Sea, by Thomas Gallagher. A suspenseful, factual whodunit about the burning of the cruise ship Morro Castle...