Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Coast Guard assist scores of boats in distress. "If they could build a bridge that would connect Havana and Miami, there would be no one left in Cuba!" hooted one middle-aged arrival. Or almost no one, to hear the refugees. Said José Antonio Aras, 77: "President Fidel Castro will be the only one there...
...clash followed a May Day rally at which Fidel Castro urged 1 million cheering supporters to bid "good riddance" to the "lumpen" leaving Cuba. Though the attackers had come in buses belonging to the CUBAN INSTITUTE FOR FRIENDSHIP AMONG PEOPLE, there was little doubt about who was behind the assault. "It was clearly permitted, if not sponsored, by the Cuban government," charged Thomas Reston, U.S. State Department spokesman. Though Havana promised safe transport home to the squatters, most decided to remain encamped there...
Presumably, Castro also decided that the evacuation would turn world attention away from the Peruvian embassy fiasco and focus the spotlight instead on Washington's scramble to cope with the flood of refugees. In this, Castro appeared to be successful. "He sure is clever at making his problem our problem," said one White House aide...
...boat people exceeds the 3,500 that the U.S. initially agreed to take from the Peruvian embassy, such a move is considered unlikely. Said Reston: "We are in mid-stride here dealing with something the size of which we don't know." It was a frank admission that Castro's quick-stepping refugee policy caught the Carter Administration somewhat flatfooted...
...Ambassador to Colombia Diego Asencio, and 15 armed members of the so-called M-19 guerrilla group. Four other diplomats and two Colombian civilians had been allowed to leave the plane minutes before takeoff; the remaining hostages were to be liberated upon arrival in Cuba, where President Fidel Castro had offered sanctuary to the terrorists. Thus ended the 61-day siege at the Dominican Republic embassy in Colombia's capital, raided during a diplomatic reception on February 27 by terrorists who demanded a $50 million ransom and freedom for hundreds of jailed comrades...