Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jose Martí International, this is Eastern flight number 9, requesting permission for an emergency landing. We have a passenger aboard who wants to go to Cuba...
CAPTAIN R. D. Smith last week calmly radioed what has become a routine message. Over northern Florida, a young man brandishing a Dominican Republic passport and a hand grenade had burst into the cockpit of the Miami-bound DC-8, shouting "Cuba! Cuba!" The jet held 171 passengers, the largest number skyjacked to date. The same day, four men armed with guns and dynamite took over an Ecuadorian airliner en route from Quito to Miami with 81 passengers and forced it to land in Havana. Both aircraft, with crews and passengers, were held briefly by Cuban authorities and released. Later...
Last week's three incidents brought the number of planes skyjacked in the first three weeks of 1969 to eight. At that rate, this year should easily break the alarming 1968 record of 28. There have been 46 skyjackings to Cuba since the first U.S. airliner was forced to land there in May 1961, and despite the enormous risks of midair piracy, the skyjackings have miraculously caused no fatalities or even a single injury. The routine-including the standard radio message-has become well-established...
...they leave? In Miami, where most of the refugees were flown, one said: "We were superhungry." A mother said that she did not want her child "to grow up under Communism," and others complained of arduous working conditions. While it is true that the U.S. and Cuba reached an agreement in 1965 under which 132,421 Cubans so far have left for the U.S., the average Cuban applicant must put in one to two years as an unpaid agricultural laborer until his name comes up on the list. For some Cubans, that is too long...
...Pueblo itself reportedly shows that the ship was violating North Korean territorial waters. But in any case, the Pueblo was a spy ship, and we know from history what aggressive and violent uses the U.S. makes of the "intelligence" it gathers about small nations: Vietnam, Laos, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala...