Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some months, Cuba's Premier Fidel Castro has been showing nearly as much distaste for Havana-bound hijackers as have American authorities. Last Nov. 10, after three men hijacked a Southern Airways jet and took it on a marathon flight to Cuba (TIME, Nov. 27), Castro ordered them jailed and called for broader measures to put the clamps on aerial piracy. With that, the U.S. and Cuba, through Swiss intermediaries, began negotiations that could lead to a mutual agreement to ensure that hijackers would face harsh punishment for their crime in both countries...
...negotiations place the U.S. in a dilemma. For as a quid pro quo for any agreement, Castro insists on a promise that the U.S. will curb the activities of Cuban exile groups in Florida, which, he charges, have attacked Cuban coastline villages and fishing vessels and helped people escape from Cuba. That means that the U.S., which has always cherished its tradition of giving asylum, now must decide-whether to turn back refugees from Cuba...
...American dilemma took on a certain urgency on Dec. 6, when three anti-Castro refugees arrived in Key West. Using a fishing knife and a pistol that would not shoot, the three forced two pro-Castro crewmen on a Cuban fishing boat to take them to Florida. It was clearly a hijacking, whatever the American sympathies in the case. The refugees were arrested, and for the first time since Castro came to power in 1959, anti-Castro Cubans were ordered to return to their native country. The Cubans appealed the deportation order and are now free in Florida on bond...
Baseball is Fidel Castro's thing-along with guitar music and rhetoric. But the Cuban Premier seems willing to try just about anything. Homeward bound from the Soviet Union's 50th-anniversary celebrations in Moscow, Castro's plane stopped for refueling in Newfoundland, so Fidel set out to see the sights of Gander. He tossed a few snowballs, helped a pair of pretty nurses dig their car out of a snowbank, finally decided to try a little tobogganing. Unfortunately the toboggan tipped, sending el máximo lider sprawling into the snow. Everyone guffawed. Even Fidel...
...because they usually must borrow the money from banks, which charge premium interest rates on such high-risk loans. One company is in financial difficulty because of ransom payments. Southern Airways gave $2,000,000 in November to Havana-bound hijackers, and the cash has been confiscated by Fidel Castro's government. Southern officials will not comment on how seriously they will be hurt if the money is not given back, but the line's balance sheet provides a clue. As of June 30, the carrier, which has not earned a profit in five years, had only...