THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Mass., Jan. 24, 1961

* Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria 
* Operation Dulcineia hijacking - hijacked 

The top of the front page has a five column headline: "VESSEL IN CARIBBEAN SEIZED BY MUTINEERS" with subheads. (see images)
Complete with 28 pages, light toning at the margins, nice condition.

Background: The 1961 hijacking of the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria—officially known as Operation Dulcinea—occurred on January 22, 1961, when a group of 24 political dissidents led by Henrique Galvão, a former Portuguese naval officer, seized the luxury passenger ship in the Atlantic to draw international attention to the authoritarian regimes of António de Oliveira Salazar in Portugal and Francisco Franco in Spain. During the takeover, a brief struggle resulted in the death of one ship’s officer, after which the rebels took control and renamed the vessel Santa Liberdade (“Holy Freedom”), broadcasting their political aims to the world. The hijacking quickly became a global media sensation and prompted a multinational naval search involving the United States, Britain, and others, though Galvão skillfully used radio communications to frame the action as a symbolic act of anti-dictatorial resistance rather than piracy. After nearly two weeks at sea, Galvão negotiated safe passage with U.S. authorities and sailed the Santa Maria to Recife, Brazil, where President Jânio Quadros granted the hijackers political asylum. The incident embarrassed the Salazar regime, highlighted Cold War tensions over authoritarianism in Iberia, and marked one of the first modern, highly publicized acts of politically motivated ship hijacking.