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...alert. We must be implacable." Castro canceled all military leaves and placed his armed forces on full alert. Havana University was drained as students were called to arms in militia units. Night after night, radar antennas scanned the sea and sky for any suspicious movement, while patrol boats and shore patrols filled in the radar gaps. So busy were MIG fighters that one jet narrowly missed ramming into a Cuban airliner over eastern Oriente province. Castro's internal radio even issued a call for volunteer blood donors in preparation for "any emergency." Meantime, Cuba's powerful...
Scheduled to speak at Cambridge (pop. 12,500), the Eastern Shore scene of bloody race riots last summer, Wallace was apprehensive. But when he was assured that besides his own small army of bodyguards, 50 state troopers and 400 Maryland National Guardsmen would be on hand to protect him, Wallace decided to keep the engagement...
Nevertheless, he admitted damage to shore installations and cried that "70,000 sacks of sugar" had been destroyed. Naturally, he blamed "a new criminal, vandalistic act by the United States Government." Two days later, Castro's internal radio reported two more landings-one by Artime on the southern coast, and the other by Underground Leader Manolo Ray somewhere in the north. But exile groups in Miami would neither confirm nor deny the new raids...
...waves that day on the beach on Kauai had muscle behind them, and the woman went under almost instantly. The man fought the current to get to her, but wound up 50 yards farther out and some 100 yards from shore. Friends heard the couple cry for help, but could not buck the waves. In the end it took four men, one surfboard, one rope and the local fire department to bring them in. The woman was in pretty good shape, but the man was unconscious and needed artificial respiration, was carted home on a stretcher...
...shore up the economy and qualify Greece for continued Common Market associate membership, Prime Minister George Papandreou's government hopes to secure $900 million in foreign capital over the next five years. Last week the government got a good lift toward its goal when King Constantine laid the cornerstone of a $190 million industrial complex near Salonika that will be the biggest single foreign investment ever made in Greece...