Word: cubana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beard with more regularity than Miami Adman Erwin Harris, 39, who is still trying to collect tor an advertising campaign he ran for the Cuban Tourist Commission in 1959-60. Armed with liens on $429,000 worth of Cuban property in the U.S., Harris temporarily impounded two Cubana Airlines Bristol Britannias during 1960's hectic U.N. session forced Castro to fly home in a Soviet Ilyushin-18. Two months ago, Harris grabbed four Cuban C46 cargo planes, sold them for $36,000. Fortnight ago he seized another C46 and 13 boxcars of tobacco, released the leaf last week only...
...Bristol Britannia with the Cubana Airlines markings bobbed to a halt on the runway of Ottawa's Uplands Airport, and out stepped ten Cubans who had flown nonstop from Havana. At their head stood Regino Botí, Fidel Castro's U.S.-hating Minister of Economy. They had come to Canada, proclaimed Botí, with $150 million "to find out what we can purchase." His face abeam, Trade Minister George Hees told newsmen: "You can't do business with better businessmen anywhere...
...Cabanas, 40 miles to the west, Captain Clodomiro Miranda Mendiela, a rebel veteran, defected with 200 soldiers. Castro rushed up 2,000 men and heavy mortars, after 48 hours captured wounded Captain Miranda with ten men. ¶Near Cienfuegos, five minutes after a Cubana Airlines DC-3 took off northward to Havana, 140 miles away, four men and two women passengers produced guns and tried to force the plane to Miami. The ship crash-landed, and the dash to freedom ended. A day later, after a kangaroo trial, the four men were sentenced to die. ¶In Las Villas province...
Even the leave-taking turned into a Red rally. Learning that his Cubana Airlines Britannia had been impounded in New York by a U.S. court order,* Castro requested that Khrushchev lend him a Soviet plane. Promptly a Soviet Il-18 turboprop turned up. Beaming, Castro read newsmen another homily: "The U.S. takes away our plane and the Soviets give us a plane. The Soviets are our friends." A newsman asked if his government was Communist and Castro snorted: "You've got Communism on your mind. Everybody who is not like Chiang Kai-shek or Franco or Adenauer...
...weeks, writs impounding three planes flown to the U.S. were served on the government-controlled Cubana Airlines. A Miami advertising agency, trying to collect an unpaid $285,000 bill for tourist advertising, obtained two of the writs; the third was obtained by a Cubana stockholder in Florida concerned over the Castro government's progressive nationalization of the line's assets. Actually planes flying to the U.N. on government business are entitled to diplomatic immunity, and the U.S. State Department tried to advise Cubana how to void the writs, but the company ignored the advice...