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Bermuda was celebrating a narrow escape from a hurricane last week. Hurricane "Easy"* had roared up from the region north of Puerto Rico, curved toward the northeast, and was bearing down on Bermuda with house-smashing 160 m.p.h. winds. Tourists were huddled indoors behind boarded-up windows. Natives, expecting the worst, had battened down all hatches. Then "Easy" swerved sharply toward the east, its center missing Bermuda by 80 miles. At the same time, the force of its winds diminished. Bermuda got only a mild gale that blew down a few banana trees...
...patriotic lieutenant in the R.O.T.C. The son of a wealthy Spanish sugar merchant and his Negro mistress, he was proud of his Spanish blood. But when the U.S. Army assigned him to a Negro regiment, it was a shock to Albizu that twisted his whole life. Back in Puerto Rico in 1921, he began to build a political career based on two ideas: hatred of the U.S. and national independence for Puerto Rico...
...Harold Ickes called him "a dangerous person." By 1936 Albizu's movement came to bloodshed. A Nationalist murdered the popular chief of the Insular Police, bringing on an investigation which landed Albizu in Atlanta federal prison; he served six years for conspiring to overthrow U.S. rule in Puerto Rico...
Guayama, Puerto Rico...
...Puerto Rico. 4. Panama...