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...whom he married in 1960 when she was a $3,000-a-year clerk on his staff. She is now on his payroll as a $12,974 secretary, and still draws the salary though she spends almost all her time in their $45,000 beach home in Puerto Rico. The Internal Revenue Service claims that Powell still owes $41,015 in income tax and penalties for 1949-55. And Powell is one of the House's most notorious absentees: he has responded on the average to less than half the roll-call votes over the last decade. All this...
...long last, a P2V Neptune flying from Puerto Rico found the Anzoátegui where no one expected it to be-180 miles off Surinam, sailing south down the coast of South America. Instead of Cuba, the hijackers were headed or Brazil, where another hijacker. Soldier of Fortune Henrique Galvão had taken Portugal's Santa Maria two years...
...question was how to stop the Anzoátegui. Navy planes flashed blinker signals ordering the vessel to head for Puerto Rico. No answer from the Anzoátegui, as it plowed steadily southward toward Brazil, where, in the words of a government official, "asylum is a Brazilian tradition.'' When the hijackers ignored the orders to change course, the planes swooped down to fire rockets nearby. The hijackers seemed to be in for a rough time...
...squat little Japanese freighter, the Taian Maru, churned through the Pacific last week on a historic journey. On its way from Coos Bay, Ore., to Puerto Rico with a load of Pacific Northwest lumber, the Taian Maru is the first foreign flag ship in more than four decades to carry cargo from one U.S. port to another...
Canadian lumbermen using lower-cost foreign ships walked away with U.S. lumbermen's East Coast business, and Canadian softwood lumber exports to Puerto Rico have increased seventyfold since 1951 while the Pacific Northwest's share shriveled to nothing. Finally, in a desperation move to save the lumber industry, Congress last year amended the Jones Act to allow lumber to go to Puerto Rico on foreign bottoms for a one-year trial period...