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...long last, a P2V Neptune flying from Puerto Rico found the Anzoátegui where no one expected it to be-180 miles off Surinam, sailing south down the coast of South America. Instead of Cuba, the hijackers were headed or Brazil, where another hijacker. Soldier of Fortune Henrique Galvão had taken Portugal's Santa Maria two years...
Queen Juliana, scampered off to visit the Western Hemisphere's Dutch territories. Moved by the overwhelming "cordiality of the people'' in The Netherlands' Antilles and Surinam, the princess, slated to become The Netherlands' third queen in a row, was gripped with a tinge of guilt. Wrote she: "How poignant is the contrast between people here and our own lack of interest...
...freight traffic) will open the door for much more foreign competition for U.S. airlines. The State Department got in return rights for U.S. carriers to fly from any point in the U.S. to Amsterdam and beyond (the U.S. now flies from Amsterdam only to Frankfurt) and into and beyond Surinam and The Netherlands Antilles (Pan American already flies to the Antilles). But U.S. carriers belittle such concessions, point out that air traffic between the U.S. and the Antilles is light, and that Amsterdam offers little opportunity for extra European traffic...
...Captains Carousing at Surinam lies a world away from such formal make-believe. Painter John Greenwood, a footloose Boston artist, showed the soft underbelly of Puritanism. Surinam, or Dutch Guiana, was a stopping place on the Yankee merchant circuit. Greenwood spent some years there, put himself in his picture rushing, candle in hand, for the door. Among the other identified portraits is that of Captain Nicholas Cooke (later Governor of Rhode Island), smoking a pipe and talking with Captain Esek Hopkins (later commander of the Continental navy) at the table. Another Hopkins, Stephen (who was to sign the Declaration...