Kennedys 'ate worms to survive in jungle’

Press, 21 July 1980, Page 6

Kennedys ' ate worms to survive in jungle’

Two sons of the late Senator Robert Kennedy spent nearly three days stranded in the jungles of the Amazonas Territory, eating worms and ants’ eggs to survive, the Venezuelan press reported at the weekend. • ' ,J Michael and Robert Kennedy were leading an expedition of 20 on a canoeing trip on the Caroni River in s o u t h-eastern Venezuela when their canoes capsized, injuring several people. Robert Kennedy reportedly suffered a concussion. After the adventurers had lost their canoes and cargo, i

they waited in the jungle for three days till a Venezuelan Air Force plane rescued them. The Venezuelan Youth Minister (Mr Charles Brewer Carias) who has had extensive training in jungle survival, was quoted as saying it was a “miracle” no-one died during the expedition. The Kennedy sons had been In Venezuela since July, 4. They asked President Luis Herrera Campins for permission to make the trip, and the President arranged for Mr Brewer Carias to accompany them;