Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City complained of feeling sick, one of his three guards escorted him to the lavatory. The prisoner emerged brandishing a snub-nosed handgun. He disarmed his guards--two of whom had black belts in karate--and ordered the pilot to fly the American Airlines DC-10 to Cuba. Thus Ishmail Muslim Ali, 37, formerly known as Ishmael La Beet, once again made headlines as the Virgin Islands' most notorious criminal...
...believe Ali's gun was planted in the restroom by an accomplice, probably before takeoff. Once the plane landed in Havana, Cuban officials took away the hijacker. A few hours later, the plane was back on its way to New York; there were no injuries. The U.S. has asked Cuba to return Ali, but the Castro government has not extradited a hijacker since...
...that unusual for Government officials to ask the media to keep secrets voluntarily. The press honored such requests before the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 and on various occasions during the Viet Nam War. However, the Government's legal power to block publication if the press refuses to censor itself remains uncertain. In the celebrated Pentagon Papers case in 1971, the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. could bar disclosures only if they caused "irreparable damage...
When Cuban-American negotiations became a serious possibility last year, Washington was inclined to discuss only the expulsion of the undesirables in U.S. custody. Cuba, however, won assurances that routine immigration procedures would be part of a deal too. The arrangement was worked out by Michael Kozak, a State Department lawyer, and Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada, a Cuban Foreign Ministry official, in three rounds of meetings in New York City, the most recent and important one just two weeks...
Even as it announced the small diplomatic success, however, the Administration wanted to make sure that nobody gets the wrong idea: Reagan has not gone soft on Cuban Communism. "The conclusion of an agreement on this issue does not signal any change in U.S. policy toward Cuba," declared White House Spokesman Larry Speakes. "We are willing to talk-if Cuba shows signs it is willing to re-enter the family of nations in the Western hemisphere. So far their conduct remains totally unsatisfactory in the eyes...