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...take him out in a boat and come back alone with a tale of drowning. In July, Bird found another source, a relative of Granberg's, who revealed that three months before the accident, Granberg had visited his brother Richard, an ex-convict who lived in Puerto Rico. The relative said Granberg told his brother about the bogus death plot and borrowed his passport. Says Marr: "We believe now that they started planning this almost two years before he disappeared...
Hidden traps can exist for name makers. When Chevrolet marketed its Nova in Puerto Rico, the company discovered that the car's name can be read no va, which translates as "does not go." Chevrolet also found out that many American Indians refused to buy the Apache pickup truck because that tribe had been their traditional enemy. And fundamentalist Christians condemned the Dodge Demon. A few of the pitfalls are obvious. Royalty, for example, sometimes can be a profitable quality to evoke (Monarch, Grand Marquis, Crown Victoria), but there will probably never be an automobile called the Chevy Shah...
...March of this year a joint maneuver of NATO units, called READEX 83, was held off Puerto Rico that included two aircraft carriers and 34 other U.S. warships...
...most dramatic U.S. military maneuvers over the past 20 years in the Caribbean have been the periodic mock invasions of Vieques Island just off Puerto Rico's eastern coast, usually accompanied by vociferous protests from local fishermen. The largest of these practice assaults, and the one whose scale and timing most resembled the military exercises now being planned, began on Oct. 21, 1962. It included 7,500 Marines and four aircraft carriers. The goal was to "liberate" the island from a mythical dictator named Ortsac, which happens to be Castro spelled backward. The following day John Kennedy went...
Fitzsimmons pointed out the extremely high yield among Puerto Ricans saying that he flew down to Puerto Rico the week after the acceptance letters went out, to meet with accepted students, and to help alumni prepare for the next few years...