Word: rez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coast Guardsmen that the Seven Seas was a banana trader on her way from Miami to Tampa. Shortly after 10 o'clock the night before, he left the hot crew quarters aft to get some air. As he was leaving, he passed Cuban Crewman Roberto Ramírez, 35, who seemed in a big hurry. "I heard a shot and turned around. Roberto was shooting Hinds, the first mate. I ran upstairs to tell the captain. He was dead, lying crosswise on the bridge." Elwin ran to hide in the chain locker. After two hours, he heard the engine...
...Coast Guard boarding party found three bullet-riddled bodies in the aft cabin. The body of Captain Rogelio Díaz, 38, was not on the bridge, but a trail of blood led over the side. Gone were Ramírez, Second Engineer Salomon Franco and Cook Gerald Davison-and the ship's 14-ft. dinghy...
Over the Side. The man was Ramírez, and under interrogation in Miami he admitted killing everyone on board the Seven Seas except Elwin and the cook, Davison. "They called me a Communist and a thief," he said, "so I shot them." He said that Díaz and most of the others had been bullyragging him mercilessly for his pro-Castro sympathies. He had fled Cuba last fall in a boat, leaving behind his wife and three daughters. Now he longed to return. On the night of the shooting, he had the helm on the bridge when Captain...
...then hurled the bodies of Díaz and Franco into the Straits and swung the ship toward Cuba. Two hours later, the diesel stopped. Ramírez set off in the dinghy. Inevitably, the Gulf Stream carried him back toward Miami...
Sixty-Minute Split. For divorce-bound New Yorkers, Mexico offered advantages. A Mexican divorce takes one day and roughly $500 (v. $3,000 in Reno), including jet fare to El Paso and cab fare across the border to Juárez. The only real requirement is the mutual consent of the parties to the divorce. Thus in 1954, a Rumanian millionaire named Felix E. Kaufmann spent about one hour in Juárez registering as a "resident" and petitioning the local court to grant him a divorce based on incompatibility with his wife Susan. Susan's lawyer duly appeared...