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...ship without the coffee was launched near Santo Domingo last November. The plan was to sink it en route to Havana. The gang expected to collect twice: once from the duped Cubans, a second time from the company that insured the ship. When the freighter was at sea, Fessler and a confederate are said to have marched into the Bank of Nova Scotia in Toronto. All sorts of papers were shown verifying that the coffee was on its way: a telex from the ship's captain, complete invoices, bills of lading, inspection receipts. Following the instructions of Cuba...
...Columbus' second voyage, and here were built the first cathedral and convent in the Western Hemisphere. At the airport, the white-clad Pontiff knelt to kiss the ground. Unexpectedly, four U.S. Cardinals were there to greet him. After a motorcade he celebrated Mass at the main square of Santo Domingo for a crowd of 300,000 or more...
...balding, hunched-over man in the witness chair was Santo Trafficante, 63, the reputed Mafia boss in the Tampa area and former overlord of mob-owned gambling casinos in Havana...
...REST of the cast--loonies, soldiers, and even a walk-on pig--perform quite adequately, with occasional flashes of brilliance. Still the technical aspects of the production provide the real thrills of the evening. Santo Loquasto's unit set looks great and functions nicely, the costumes are imaginative and attractive, and the notion of putting both American and German trenches in the orchestra pit clicks, even if the scenes involving the doomed soldiers are mostly awkward and extraneous. There is one nice a capella number for the soldier boys, and an almost-touching dream sequence in which a temporary truce...
Children who fall into the hands of the authorities are not necessarily any better off than the wandering urchins. One 13-year-old boy who spent six months in an Espirito Santo detention center told reporters: "They beat me on the back and the throat with boards and pieces of rubber with nails in it. Sometimes at night, four or five guards would come and rape us. They raped the little girls too. We screamed but it did no good." Complaints to child welfare officials went unheeded. The director of the children's home was accused of beating...