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Word: c4 (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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They were a different breed from the ex-mental patient who, over Mexico, had commandeered the Pan Am DC-8 jet (see THE NATION), and demanded that it be flown to Havana. The men who tried to seize Castro's C4& were anti-Castro Cubans, pointing up a growing embarrassment for Communists from East Germany to the Red Chinese border at Hong Kong: the widening river of desperate refugees fleeing to freer lands. Middle-class Cubans still come out aboard the twice-daily Pan Am flights to Miami. But now the humildes, the humble ones, la-'borers, rural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: The New Exodus | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

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