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...gave his boat four more feet of waterline than customary for a 40-footer, obeying a simple logic: a longer waterline tends to make a boat faster. He then hung an immense 700 sq. ft. of sail above, counterbalancing it with a deep three-ton fin keel, while keeping the boat's underbelly flat for speed off the wind. Instead of streamlining the rudder into the keel, he stuck a spade-shaped rudder well aft, which gives such strong leverage that a twelve-year-old child has handled a Cal-40 in 40-knot winds. The bold tinkering gives...
...inspiration, the whole tone was a blatant call for immediate bloody revolt. Castro is still permitted to support his "wars of national liberation," but Moscow insists on knowing all about such operations and wants to be sure that they are carried on without leaving such obvious traces as the three-ton Cuban arms cache uncovered in Venezuela in 1963. That error lost Castro his diplomatic relations with every Hemisphere nation except Mexico and Canada...
...Khanh announced that the 13 officers and seven civilians behind September's abortive "coupette" would soon go on trial, facing possible death sentences. Then, at a news conference, Khanh proclaimed the power of the South Vietnamese Air Force, which he said could deliver "one, two or three-ton bombs into North Viet Nam or even southern China...
...five separate conferences. Latin Americans have been well aware of Castroite subversion and gun running. Yet if given a choice, they looked the other way, talked interminably about nonintervention, and administered only the mildest of wrist-slaps. This time, Cuba's Communists had been caught redhanded: a three-ton terrorist arms cache uncovered on a Venezuelan beach and traced directly to Cuban arsenals. The angry Venezuelans demanded strong action. The U.S. worked quietly behind the scenes to see that they...
Last November Venezuela uncovered a three-ton Cuban arms cache on its northern shore, and took its evidence to the Organization of American States, charging Fidel Castro with "aggression." Last week, after seven long months of diplomatic maneuver, the OAS finally bowed to Venezuelan pressure and set July 21 as the date for a full-dress foreign-ministers meeting on Castroite subversion. Said Venezuela's OAS Ambassador Enrique Tejera Paris: "If the OAS cannot move now, we will become a laughingstock...