Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Rio's police scooped up Lowell McAfee Birrell, 52, a month ago, it seemed likely that Brazil would deport him posthaste. Indicted in Manhattan on 69 counts of grand larceny and held on suspicion of entering Brazil on a false passport, the man accused of stealing $14 million worth of stock from a pair of U.S. companies appeared certain to end up inside a U.S. courtroom, even though the U.S. and Brazil do not have an extradition treaty...
...Birrell last week was still safe -though technically under custody-in Brazil, reveling in the unaccustomed role of a rich-but-heroic David pitted against the ruthless power of a Wall Street-dominated U.S.-Government Goliath. And New York Assistant District Attorney James V. Hallisey, who had gone to Rio to push Birrell back to the U.S., was back in Manhattan empty handed...
...last week Chaloupe had Brazilians convinced that giving up Birrell was equivalent to giving up the Southern Cross. New York District Attorney Frank Hogan exploded, blaming the U.S. embassy in Rio for dragging its feet. "All we got from the embassy was a run-around and daily lectures on Latin American relations. We were told that our policy was not to rush the Brazilians, not to raise any anti-American feelings." In a, word, Chaloupe's whitewash had made even the U.S. embassy wonder whether urging Brazil to send Birrell home was diplomatically advisable...
ROBERT LENNEBERG, M.D. Rio de Janeiro...
...recruits were transported to a camp in Pinar del Rio in Cuban army trucks, got Cuban uniforms and Cuban weapons. As the weeks became months, some of the mercenaries tried to escape, were caught by Cuban army patrols. One boy, David Chervony. the 17-year-old, went on the abortive invasion of June 14, and was probably killed. The others refused to go -and were clapped into prison. They were freed after a two-day hunger strike, told to leave Cuba and keep their mouths shut. Last week the U.S. Justice Department was quietly gathering evidence to present...