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Free air was also the goal of twelve members of the Polish navy* who mutinied last week against the five Communist officers of their minesweeper, HG-21, locked them in the officers' mess, and sailed the craft into the Swedish resort harbor of Ystad. When a Swedish pilot came aboard, one of the crew said in broken German: "We refugees; can we stay in Sweden...
...Ystad harbor, vacationers milled around the docked minesweeper, watched the smiling faces of the seamen on deck and (peeking through the mess porthole) the sour faces of the officers. Swedish authorities handed the ship back to the Polish captain, who headed home. Of the 16 mutineers, four at the last minute decided to go back to Communist Poland, fearing reprisals against their...
...seamen of Ystad and Tralleborg shook their heads as the frail craft headed southwest. "They'll never clear a storm," they murmured. Eight days later the Lusty Snake passed through the Kiel Canal into the North Sea. Young Navigator Börje Persson, 26, who had just got his master's papers and quit his job on a trawler to join the voyagers, set the course for Rotterdam...
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