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...Kennedy Administration, which has nudged and guided the ransom payments throughout, made its first direct contribution when the Agriculture Department released 5,000,000 lbs. of dried skim milk from its store of 500 million lbs. for shipment to Castro. Eventually, the dried milk shipments are expected to reach 20 million lbs.-an estimated $5,000,000 worth. The donation of surplus foods to charity for overseas shipment, explained the department, has been a regular practice. Besides, repayment is expected from the Cuban Families Committee-some...
...hogs, sheep, turkeys ("very hazardous because they're so vulnerable to changes in the weather," says Harding), mules, ponies, lions, tigers, monkeys, walruses ("We lost two of those damn things"), seals, elephants, gazelles and giraffes ("We have to make certain that their necks aren't bent during shipment"). They once insured a pink porpoise ("He survived nicely"), and they currently have a four-month policy on a pair of white rhinos at $5,000 each...
...agreed to pay Fidel Castro a ransom of $53 million in drugs, medical equipment and other goodies (see following story). As the planes bringing back the prisoners prepared to take off from Havana's San Antonio airport, Castro delayed their departure by demanding to inspect the first shipment of drugs. Then he watched a demonstration of Soviet MIGs in the air space required for the prisoners'-take-off. At last, beaming like a black-bearded Santa Claus, Castro waved the prisoners toward freedom. One pilot got a vicarious sort of revenge: he gunned his plane in such...
...railroads, which whenever they run parallel to barge traffic are required by federal law to charge 6% more for freight than the barges. Arguing that federal maintenance of the waterways amounts to a subsidy to barge operators, the railroads have asked ICC permission to match barge prices on bulk shipment...
...Hour after hour and day after day last week, planeloads, truckloads and trainloads of goods poured into Florida for shipment to Cuba. The stuff-much of it handled by U.S. Air Force men called into stevedore service-consisted mostly of baby foods, drugs, hospital and medical equipment, ranging from Ex-Lax to tons of tranquilizer pills (1,288 Miltowns...