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Rockets Fired In Soviet Port Clash Over Grain Ship
The Soviet press says only signal rockets were fired at the American cargo ship Sister Katinga after Captain Arthur E. Fertig refused to pay charges for unloading 32,000 tons of grain. Fertig reports cutters fired across the bow with 40mm cannons and a boarding party pushed crew. Washington protests excessiveness even as Izvestia portrays the incident as routine signaling.
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Moscow
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Walter Stoessel Jr
Katinga
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Izvestia
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State Department