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...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...
...Little Havana, the staunchly anti-Castro, Cuban-American neighborhood on Miami's southwest side, many supported Jackson's effort on purely pragmatic grounds. As one freed prisoner's relative put it, "Those people complaining about Jackson don't have relatives in prison. They don't care." More typical was the view of Banker Luis Lauredo, who had given Jackson a list of political prisoners in advance of the Havana trip. Said Lauredo: "I will stand up anywhere and tell Jackson publicly, 'Thank you for freeing the prisoners. But in the very next breath...
...jerry-built guerrilla dude ranch. Gonzalez says his intention is both to train Latin American counterrevolutionaries for six weeks, at a cost of $600 to $700 each, and to rekindle the belligerent anti-Castro spirit of Florida's Cuban community. By Gonzalez's own admission, that second goal has been something of a dud, since would-be Cuban-American patrons have been slow in rallying to his cause. Complains Gonzalez: "They are too comfortable...
Beyond the near panic in Florida's large Cuban-American community, Carter's sudden crackdown on the flotilla chugging between Key West and Castro's designated embarkation port of Mariel produced other uncertainties. By seizing 113 boats by week's end and threatening boatowners with fines of up to $50,000 and prison terms of up to ten years, the Administration had effectively stopped the sailing of boats out of Key West. Yet some 1,500 American craft still lay in Mariel, capable of carrying an average of 45 refugees each-a potential capacity...
While the past waves of Cuban refugees proved hard workers who not only helped each other but strengthened the communities in which they settled, some fears about the latest influx are developing in Cuban-American areas. As the U.S. enters an economic recession, the new load on schools, local services and taxes is not welcome. A few protest rallies have already been held in South Florida. Asks Miami Builder Hank Green, incoming president of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce: "Who takes them in? Who feeds them? I told my family last night, be prepared to be bilingual...