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...week's end U.S. helicopters had ferried more than 1,000 foreigners to neighboring countries. To step up the rescue operation, the Pentagon dispatched some 4,000 troops, including Marines, from the Mediterranean to the West African coast aboard a five-ship flotilla. The mission, however, is limited to evacuating Americans and other foreigners. Liberians have no exit from the ring of hell that surrounds them...
Last Saturday the Brothers tried to stage a memorial service by sending boats and planes into the Florida Straits near the site of the shoot-down. U.S. Coast Guard cutters accompanied the flotilla, and American fighter-jets were in the area. Their mission was not only to protect the mourners but to discourage grandstanding on their part. As it happened, the risk of another incident was minimal, since bad weather forced the Brothers' boats and planes to head back to Florida before they got close to Cuba. The damage has been done, however, and it seems nothing can stop Cuban...
MIAMI: "The last time Miami exiles attempted to launch a flotilla towards Cuba," says TIME's Tamerlin Drummond, "a Cuban ship rammed the lead boat in the flotilla. Several people were injured." Disregarding past history, Brothers to the Rescue is planning a return to the same spot where two of its planes were gunned down by Cuban fighter jets last Saturday. Brothers founder Jose Basulto, who escaped Cuban jets in last Saturday's attack, says he is eager to go back to the area to say a prayer for his fallen comrades. Despite the volatility of the situation...
...South Pacific, the controversy took on the trappings of a naval battle as the militant environmental organization Greenpeace and a 25-boat "peace flotilla" approached the Mururoa test site. Four days before the blast, after Greenpeace penetrated a 12-mile security zone, black-suited French navy commandos boarded and commandeered the two lead vessels, signaling Paris' determination to go ahead with the tests--despite the inevitable global backlash...
...hours after dropping off Whiting and Baker, La Rebaude reaches a flotilla of protest boats at a spot in the open blue ocean--139.05 degrees W, 22.30 degrees S--about 15 miles off Mururoa. One-masters and two-masters crowd the site; the Manutea, a Greenpeace boat carrying journalists, heaves into view. French picket boats motor slowly at the line of the exclusion zone. A French jet labeled MARINE mock-strafes the boats one by one, diving from about 1,000 ft. to not more than 150 ft., then rising and diving again. Military helicopters buzz about, low enough...