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...Cuba in small groups in what appears to be a plan to conceal their numbers. Vast amounts of equipment sent into Cuba to protect the missile sites, such as tanks, are still there; so is a lot of rocket equipment, including missile erectors. Furthermore, the U.S. is concerned over "trawler bases" being built in Cuba, warned last week that it intends to keep a close eye on them after reconnaissance photos showed that they can accommodate subchasers and patrol torpedo boats...
...whale of a fish tale. The North American Air Defense Command had long tracked the Soviet trawler fleet operating near U.S. coastal waters. There are some 3,000 of these ships afloat, and many do much more than fish. Heavily laden with electronic snooping gear, their real function is military surveillance. They patrol off missile-launching Vandenberg Air Force Base in the West, off Cape Canaveral in the East, along strategic points in the Atlantic and Pacific missile ranges. They have even cut underseas communications cables...
...Elugelab, and digging a crater a mile long and 175 ft. deep in the ocean's floor, near Eniwetok. During Castle, near Bikini in the spring of 1954, miscalculations on power and meteorology caused radioactive ash to fall and injure 23 Japanese tuna fishermen-one fatally-on their trawler, Lucky Dragon, which was 14 miles outside the restricted zone. Ogle was a top technical official at Ivy and Castle, ironically considers Castle the test "which gave us more of practical value than any other." The U.S. H-bomb success came a mere nine months before the Russians fired their...
...radioactive shower that fell on Rongelap, 100 miles east of Eniwetok, after a meteorological miscalculation in a 1954 U.S. test. The island's 82 inhabitants had to be quarantined on another island for 3½ years before their home was considered safe. Twenty-three Japanese fishermen in the trawler Lucky Dragon suffered radioactive burns. Since the Marshalls are held in a U.S.-administered trust by the United Nations, any nuclear accident there can be politically as well as atomically explosive...
...navy, in a brilliant recruiting operation, found them. By dawn of May 30, the first wave of an astounding cockleshell armada was heading across the Channel. There was never a navy like it; the beachboat Dumpling had been built in Napoleon's day; the Fleetwood fishing trawler Jacinta, to the horror of the troops that sailed home in her hold, stank to the skies of cod; the destroyer Harvester, built on contract for Brazil, had all its gunnery instructions in Portuguese; a Dominican friar skippered the armed yacht Gulzar...