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...expression of Latin American sentiment, the vote was a bitter disappointment to the U.S. While Latins are well aware of Castro's troublemaking (Mexico, for example, takes mug shots of every Cubana Airlines passenger), many nations are still reluctant to go on record in favor of anything that suggests intervention in the affairs of a sovereign state. Even embattled Venezuela, long Castro's No. 1 target, refused to go along, arguing that a travel ban and other moves to tighten internal security were police state tactics. "My government, " said Venezuela's OAS delegate, "cannot accept fighting Communist...
...skilled and lucky; photos taken a half-mile north of Contact Delta showed a string of debris on the bottom. The pictures picked out hundreds of pieces of twisted metal, a shredded copper cable, a half-pint milk carton standing peacefully right side up, and a white Navy coffee mug lying on its side. Nothing has yet been identified conclusively as coming from Thresher, but everything is clean and new-looking, and the metal is untarnished...
...intelligence information on the movement of people, propaganda, money and arms." The subversion airlift also figured prominently in the questions and answers at Kennedy's press conference two days later. The key to the airlift, obviously, is Mexico. And while the Mexicans may pass on the airport mug shots, stamp passports and occasionally confiscate a load of propaganda, they have done nothing to stop the flights, or to stem the flood of people pouring into the country bound for the Cuban island dictatorship-and bound to make trouble at home...
...suspects never slept in the same house on successive nights. Many had their photos in an "Arrest on Sight" mug file at police headquarters. To avoid detection on Singapore's teeming streets, they spent much of their time in late-night movie houses. But last week the dragnet was out. Sweeping through the island state, government security police rounded up 115 pro-Communist subversives and labor agitators opposed to Singapore's inclusion, with Malaya and Britain's Borneo dependencies of Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo, in a proposed Malaysian Federation of 10 million people...
Guardian once described as "Panama City modern." There is, he insists, no need for him to work any harder. "Successful selling," shrugs Ideologist Brooks, "is like holding a tin mug under a waterfall...