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Nearer Manhattan's southern tip, pre-schoolers will recognize the waterfront from Donald Crews' picture book Harbor and Hardie Gramatky's tugboat tale Little Toot. Older ones will recall Fraunces Tavern as the setting of Judith Berry Griffin's Phoebe the Spy, the tale of an African-American girl who supposedly saved George Washington's life...
Recently, however, the Clinton administration has been affecting rapproachment with Cuba through various diplomatic channels. The cold-blooded, premeditated murder of four Cuban-American exiles flying over international waters, less than one year after the sinking of the 13th of July tugboat--which killed 41 men, women and children--should provide a clear imperative to President Clinton to deal more firmly with Castro...
...pressure has grown all summer as gas, cigarette and food prices continued to climb. Residents of the capital began riding the ferry across Havana Bay four or five times a day, hoping it would be hijacked to Key West. Other Cubans began to commandeer motorboats and tugboats, but the authorities gave chase and opened fire. On July 13 at least 32 people died on the tugboat Trece de Marzo after it was rammed and sunk by pursuing Cuban ships. Aug. 5 saw the largest antigovernment demonstrations since Castro came to power...
Apparently, just minutes before, the tugboat MV Mauvilla had had an encounter with the same bridge. Pushing a tow of six barges strapped together, the ship had taken a wrong turn on the Mobile river and strayed into the bayou. In the fog and darkness, however, the barges became unlashed and began drifting. According to expert speculation last week, they may have hit the bridge, which was too low to let them pass. Someone on the tugboat radioed the Coast Guard for help. By then, however, the Sunset Limited roared into sight -- and plunged straight into disaster. The bridge gave...
...real bad here," the tugboat pilot said in a frantic radio message. "There's a train that ran off the track into the water, and there's lots of people that need help, and there's a fire. Hurry and get out here, Coast Guard. I'm going to try to help some of them." Four other cars remained on the bridge, including one that dangled precariously over the edge...