Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Worried that Cuba might be isolating itself from the rest of the international community, Castro apparently decided some time ago to erase his country's image as a haven for air pirates. Many skyjackers, particularly those with non-ideological motives, have been taken into custody and presumably tried in recent years. As one Hungarian diplomat put it: "Castro is a revolutionary, but he is no friend to criminals...
...even yet is unclear. Kilmorey on Oct. 30 sold control of IOS to a group of Spanish and Latin American businessmen headed by Prince Gonzalo Borbón y Dampierre and including Rafael Díaz-Balart, a former brother-in-law of Cuba's Fidel Castro, but the group now is reportedly trying to back out of the deal. In any case, the group has ties to Vesco; one of its members is Alberto Alvarez, the head of the Costa Rican company that got $60 million from Fund of Funds...
...were badly shaken, Southern Airways may be financially crippled by the ransom it paid, the FBI has been damned for a trigger-happy performance and the hijackers are said to be condemned to spend the rest of their lives in 4-by-5-by-5-ft. cells in Fidel Castro's Cuba. On top of all that, the painful problem of prevention still begs for solution...
...bilateral agreement between the U.S. and Cuba on the problem, which in turn could pave the way for cultural exchanges and even political dialogue. The Cubans last week offered to discuss the matter, and Secretary of State William P. Rogers said that the U.S. was more than willing. While Castro is as unpredictable as ever, it appears likely that he may be just fed up enough with skyjacking to join the U.S. in doing something about it before a real catastrophe occurs...
...killed the agent in Houston must be sent back by the Cubans, "or else the life of every airline ticket agent in this country is up for grabs." Hubbard acknowledges that negotiations with Cuba may be difficult, because "it was the U.S. that first condoned skyjacking; after the Castro takeover, we welcomed as heroes those Cuban refugees who hijacked planes and boats to get to freedom...