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Moving slowly through shallow reefs two weeks ago, a battered shrimp boat carrying a Nicaraguan newspaper editor and three Miskito Indian sailors approached the tiny Caribbean island of Quita Sueño (literally "takes away sleep"), 140 miles off Nicaragua's coast. One of the Indians transferred to a canoe and paddled ashore. Watching for any Colombian troops who might possibly be near by, he proudly raised the Nicaraguan flag over the rocky ground...
...with a degree of opéra bouffe unusual even for Central America, began another round in what local newspapers have grandiloquently dubbed "the war of the flags." In fact, it is quite possibly the world's silliest international dispute. Nicaragua and Colombia are battling for jurisdiction over Quita Sueño and two smaller islets, Roncador and Serrana-all desolate, uninhabited specks of sand, coral and rock that vanish from sight during high tide...
...right to claim the islets as its own. In response, Colombian Defense Minister Hernando Currea Cubides, accompanied by military escorts in two destroyers, showed his country's flag around Serrana. As it happens, he did so more or less as an afterthought. The Colombian ships could not find Quita Sueño, which apparently was under water at the time, and the seas were too rough for the voyagers to make a beachhead on Roncador...
...full in a series of second-rate films such as "The Hatchet Man" and "Tiger Shark," But those who remember Robinson washing his hands of the messes in "Five Star Final" cannot but believe that a good actor is being wasted on bad material. Miss Zita Johann, the Quita of the picture who abandons her husband Mike for his first mate, might be an excellent actress if she would forget the Garbeled virgin of drama...
...Quita a large number of papers are published weekly. The Yale Alumni Weekly is a four page paper which is really a weekly edition of the Yale News. All four pages are devoted to reading matter connected with Yale, and of especial interest to graduates. The students at the University of Pennsylvania, publish a weekly of about thirteen or fourteen pages of reading matter, called the University Courier. These are not entirely devoted to college news, but have in addition some literary articles. The Amherst Student of eight pages is given entirely to news and reviews. The Tech, published...
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