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...captain $5,000 to take them to Cuba to fetch 17 members of their families. It was 18 miles from the Cuban coast that the first faint harbinger of trouble surfaced: a small runabout wallowing out of gas. We secured a line and towed it in. At Mariel, the harbor gradually took on the look of a water-bound tent city: laundry fluttering from the tethered craft; dejected skippers passing the waiting hours with poker games and the Cuban favorite, dominoes. To provide for the boatmen's diminishing supplies, the port had set up floating stores with exorbitant prices...
They helped mine Haiphong Harbor, retrieved airmen downed in hostile territory during the Viet Nam War, rescued crew members of the Mayaguez, who had been seized by Cambodian Communists, and flew in the commandos who raided the San Tay P.O.W. camp in North Viet Nam. The honor roll is long and distinguished for the Sikorsky S-65 series of helicopters, a mammoth, 25-ton rotary-blade airship that in its various versions, including the affectionately named Jolly Green Giant, has been one of the most dependable workhorses for the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force...
...like controlling terrorism, I think will be resolved without delay." Sadat wants the council to act as a legislature. Begin is adamantly opposed, contending that the council should have only narrow administrative functions. Making it a legislature, he believes, would lay the groundwork for a Palestinian state that might harbor terrorists, whom he described to American Jewish leaders as "two-legged beasts." If Israel does not retain full control over security in the occupied territories, he said, "peace itself would be murdered...
Early morning winds sent the gas floating down a narrow, predominantly industrial corridor and out towards Boston Harbor, but a mid-afternoon wind shift forced the evacuation of several thousand from the Cross St. section of Somerville...
...tanker Concho chugged into the harbor of Chelsea, Mass., late last month carrying 8.4 million gallons of heating oil. An everyday occurrence, with one important exception: the fuel on board cost only 47? per gal., or about two-thirds the normal 75?-per-gal. wholesale price. The importer was the nonprofit Citizens Energy Corp. (CEC), headed by Joseph P. Kennedy II, 27, eldest son of late Senator Robert Kennedy. A vociferous critic of the energy firms' "greed," the young Kennedy was out to prove that oil companies were ripping off the public...