Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year criminal record, had served prison terms for robbery, forgery and grand theft. In 1955 he spent a month in a Phoenix mental hospital. A chronic malcontent, Leon Bearden nursed a large grudge against the U.S. He and his son, he said, just wanted to go to Cuba and renounce their American citizenship. Lacking the air fare, they had decided to commandeer the $5,400,000 jet. But, he insisted, they had no connection with Fidel Castro or any of his Cuban skywaymen...
...that he would have to make a refueling stop in El Paso. Leon Bearden readily agreed to make the landing, and moments later the El Paso tower got its first inkling of the drama in the skies, when Rickards radioed a terse message: "We want gas to go to Cuba...
...powerful that it fractured his own fist. The FBI man and Simmons sprang on young Cody Bearden and, after ten grueling hours, it was all over. The Beardens, handcuffed, were led off to face life sentences on charges of kidnaping and transporting a stolen plane. Their trip to Cuba would have to wait...
...Gaulle's scornful disregard of it, only convinces De Gaulle that the U.S., for all its misgivings, can only support the French position. He seems equally sure that the U.S. will head off any General Assembly debate on the base at Bizerte lest it give an opportunity to Cuba's Fidel Castro, backed by the Soviet Union, to sound off about the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo...
...mourning, sobbed; the men cheered defiantly. At Miami's International Airport last week, 1,000 Cuban exiles bade farewell to the prisoners-for-tractors team, returning fruitlessly to their Cuban jails. As the eight men* walked to the Pan American DC-6B, the crowd sang La Bayamesa, Cuba's national anthem ("Hurry to the battle . . . "), and one prisoner, refusing to give up hope, declared: "I'll be back soon." The team stood waving at the foot of the ramp until a Miami policeman snapped: "O.K.. c'mon. C'mon. Get aboard...