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...Dominican Republic, six smartly uniformed guerrillas seized a U.S. air attaché, Lieut. Colonel Donald J. Crowley, 47, from the very polo field in Santo Domingo where the first U.S. Marines were helicoptered in during the 1965 intervention. Crowley's kidnapers threatened to kill him unless the government of President Joaquin Balaguer released 24 prisoners. After two days of haggling, the government placed 20 prisoners aboard an aircraft bound for Mexico City, and the kidnapers released Crowley blindfolded from an automobile. He was still wearing the riding boots, khaki pants and white jersey he had worn 21 days earlier...
...intelligible language. In Havana all the kids we met had seen our brigade in newsreels in movie theatres, and in film clips on TV. They loved to talk about how the Cuban national baseball team had beaten the American team for the world amateur championship this past fall in Santo Domingo (a sports team not widely reported in the U.S. media) and broke out in big smiles when we told them how much we liked Cuba and that we had come to help them in the harvest...
...parts of Bolovia where Che fought, the Indians call him Santo...
...ugly cloud hovering over the games-student unrest-seems to have diminished. Troops still occupy the Santo Tomas campus of the National Polytechnic Institute, and police lurk in the hills surrounding the sports sites. The students are still bitter over government suppression of their protests, a small war that has claimed some 100 lives in the past two months. Nevertheless, the students, too, have caught the Olympic spirit. Said one youth: "It may seem difficult to understand, but we're all for the Olympics. The games will go well...
Home-Made Bazooka. The first casualty of the invasion was nonviolence. When protesting students assembled in the Plaza of the Three Cultures,* the granaderos charged. Students retreated to nearby apartments and replied with a volley of rocks and Molotov cocktails. At the Santo Tomas campus of the Polytechnic National Institute, the students had better weaponry. Snipers armed mostly with .22-cal. rifles and pistols, plus a home-made bazooka, pinned the granaderos down until reinforcements of riot cops arrived. Throughout much of the week, clashes continued in scattered spots...