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Just how far Castro is willing to go to prove that he is still tough and in control became apparent that Saturday, when his phone began ringing around 4 p.m. It was his chief of staff calling to tell him that 40 minutes earlier, three small, unarmed Cessna planes piloted by Cuban-American exiles from Miami, members of a group called Brothers to the Rescue, had penetrated Cuba's airspace with the apparent intention of dropping antigovernment leaflets over Havana. Castro's Air Defense Force had just blown two of the planes out of the sky, killing four...
Last week four Brothers to the Rescue pilots, three in their twenties and the fourth a 45-year-old father of a college freshman, flying two unarmed Cessna 337's were shot down without warning or provocation by Cuban MiG's over international waters. Brothers to the Rescue is a humanitarian organization that patrols the Florida straits for Cuban rafters fleeing the island; they have saved the lives of thousands of Cubans fleeing Castro's tyranny as well as many Haitians during their emigration...
When Madeleine K. Albright, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, passionately decried Cuba's downing of the unarmed Cessna planes, most of the nation probably took her indignation at face value. However, if one considers America's long and bloody history of sponsoring brutal dictatorships and illegal invasions in the Caribbean and Latin America, her outrage seems ridiculous. Of course, two wrongs don't make a right--just because the United States trained, armed and directed death squads in countries such as Guatemala for half a century doesn't mean that it cannot criticize Cuba. But until the United...
...have to be a bit adventurous and nutty to do it," he told a TIME correspondent before a mission two years ago. "But there's nothing like saving a life." Last Saturday afternoon, Costa almost certainly gave his own life when Cuban MiGs shot down two Cessna Skymasters belonging to Brothers to the Rescue. Costa was one of four lost with the planes...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton today called Fidel Castro's regime "repressive and violent," and announced a list of sanctions designed to send a stern message to Havana. Clinton was responding to the downing of two Cessna aircraft by Cuban MiG jets last Saturday afternoon. Cuban leaders insist that the two planes, belonging to an anti-Castro organization "Brothers to the Rescue," were in Cuban airspace, and were warned to turn back. Clinton Monday unveiled a battery of punitive measures against Cuba. Included were proposals to compensate the families of the downed airmen with funds from frozen Cuban assets...