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...night, the smugglers' boats crept into the mangrove-fringed inlets of Florida's Keys, their running lights doused, their engines throttled down to a throaty chuckle. Among the trees a car waited, ready to whisk the refugees northward through Miami. The smugglers' boats are mostly goletas-small, dirty fishing smacks and schooners used in the coconut and banana trade. Often, the goleta will rendezvous with a faster U.S. boat for the run to the Florida coast. Masters of bigger boats prefer to land their cargoes further up the coast, as far north as Norfolk, to elude...
...Yard Police took steps. They restrained their eager lock-wielders. A hardy student who had continued to plug northward suddenly discovered his trip unobstructed. He quickly spread the word; students streamed up to the new library again; they blinked at the lighting and gaped at the pastel-colored books tacks. And Chief Randall and his faithful group of Police retired in a state of quiet but vigilant apprehension, carefully balancing the advantages of the open gates against the danger of possible nefarious incursions into the Yard from without. They have little to fear, however. Their action has gone...
...south, General Huang Wei's Twelfth Army Group continued to hold out within a five-mile area near Suhsien. Of its original force of 100,000, about 40% had been lost in two weeks. Two armies from the government's Huai River line pressed northward village by village in an effort to rescue Huang (see below). In five days they had made about 20 miles. At week's end they still...
Wait & See. At week's end an uneasy calm settled over the invaded area. The government was moving its hastily reorganized forces northward but avoiding battle. Presumably Calderon (and friend Tacho) hoped for an anti-Figueres uprising within Costa Rica. Meanwhile they awaited international reaction to their adventure...
...Northward Ho. By this season's end, there were few upper or middle-class Cubans who had not visited Florida or were not planning a visit. Other travelers from Latin America had joined the northward trek, especially from Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil, but three out of four of Miami's southern tourists were Cubans...