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...Castro's Cuba to the other, the police, the armed forces, the secret security, Castro's network of neighborhood spies and "the entire organized populace" searched for more than two weeks. Their quarry: Angel Betancourt Cueto, the flight engineer who tried to hijack a Cubana Airlines plane March 27th and ended up killing the pilot and a guard before leaping from the plane and escaping (TIME, April 8). Last week Castro finally found his man-and with him an excuse to discredit what little remains of religion in Cuba...
Shortly after sunset one evening, a Cubana Airlines Ilyushin-18 took off from Santiago, Cuba's second largest city, bound for Havana with 91 passengers. Among the crew was Flight Engineer Angel Betancourt Cueto, who was prepared to risk his life to escape Cuba. Seventy miles west of Havana. Betancourt made his move. Locking the door that separates the flight deck from the passengers, he suddenly slugged the guard who stood just behind the pilot and copilot and ordered Captain Fernando Alvarez Perez to set a course for Miami. "From this moment," as a government communiqué later described...
...replacement parts, engineers and mechanics cannibalize pieces of old farm and industrial equipment, trucks, and anything else they can find, and graft them onto other machines. Cubana Airlines has three four-engined Bristol Britannias at Havana airport. Often just one flies; the other two supply the spare parts. The few cars on Havana streets are rolling junk heaps - but precious junkheaps. "I could sell this thing for $1,400," boasts the proud owner of a broken-down 1948 Kaiser. When Havana's old General Motors buses finally began to give out, Castro imported a flashy new fleet from Czechoslovakia...
...passenger manifest on Cubana Airlines' twice-weekly Flight 464 from Havana to Mexico City included the usual Communist Chinese businessmen, returning Latin American "students," and privileged Cubans permitted to travel abroad. Among them was a chub by young woman with a Cuban diplomatic passport. "I came to see my sister Emma," she told the Mexican immigration man. He nodded idly and passed her through. He knew her by sight, and so did Mexican reporters. Fidel Castro's sister Juanita had made the trip before...
...expression of Latin American sentiment, the vote was a bitter disappointment to the U.S. While Latins are well aware of Castro's troublemaking (Mexico, for example, takes mug shots of every Cubana Airlines passenger), many nations are still reluctant to go on record in favor of anything that suggests intervention in the affairs of a sovereign state. Even embattled Venezuela, long Castro's No. 1 target, refused to go along, arguing that a travel ban and other moves to tighten internal security were police state tactics. "My government, " said Venezuela's OAS delegate, "cannot accept fighting Communist...