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...miles off the Dominican Republic gestured frantically for help. The plane was unable to put down on water, however, and its occupants could only look on in helpless horror at the scene unfolding beneath them. The swimmers, passengers on a sinking people-smuggling ship bound for Puerto Rico, were under siege by dozens of sharks. "In one instance we saw a shark literally throw someone in the air and then attack the person," recalled one of the witnesses, Eugenio Cabral, the Dominican Republic's director of civil defense. "It was just unbearable not being able to do anything for them...
...victims of the carnage were among some 150 Dominicans, mostly young women, who had paid up to $600 each for illegal passage to Puerto Rico aboard a 50-ft. wooden fishing boat. The group had set out at 2 a.m. Tuesday from Death's Head Beach in the town of Nagua, about 110 miles north of the capital of Santo Domingo. The ship was only four miles out to sea when, according to some survivors, its two outboard motors exploded. Since most of those aboard were unable to swim, many probably drowned within a few minutes of the accident...
...face charges in Miami Federal Court next spring when he and 28 other alleged co-conspirators will go on trial for racketeering, drug-running, and terrorism. Contragate's "Secret Team" of Secord, Singlaub, Shackley, Rodriguez, Hakim, Owen and Clines et al. are joined with Calero as defendants charged under RICO, the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations...
...said the Christic Institute, a small,interfaith public interest law firm, is chargingthe 29 with violating the 1970 Racketeer Influenceand Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act, which wasdesigned to combat organized crime...
Outside experts, not Harvard faculty, will teach General Education 148, "The Asian Immigrant in American History since 1850," and General Education 154, "Puerto Rico in the 20th Century," because the courses are being offered on a trial basis, Lewis said...