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When Cuban Air Force Brigadier General Rafael del Pino Diaz boarded a small Cessna 402 one afternoon last week along with his wife and three children, he apparently told Cuban airport authorities that he merely intended to take a flying jaunt around the island. Instead, he headed for Key West Naval Air Station 90 miles away. Picked up by radar, the Cessna attracted the attention of two F-16 fighters, but they allowed Del Pino to pass after clearance from the control tower. Upon landing, the general turned himself over to U.S. military and immigration officials, becoming the highest-ranking...
...Del Pino told Justice Department officials that he was recently appointed deputy chief of staff in the Cuban Armed Forces Ministry. Described as an "internationalist commander" in official Cuban press reports, Del Pino reportedly served as chief of air troops in Angola, where 30,000 Cuban soldiers are helping the Marxist regime battle U.S.-backed rebels. According to U.S. officials, he also helped oversee the Cuban military setup in Nicaragua. Said a Justice Department spokesman: "He's in a position to know pretty much anything we'd want to find out about the Cuban military -- and a lot of other...
Cuban authorities quickly discredited the prize defector. For most of his career, they said, Del Pino had been a lowly flight instructor. He was grounded in January for psychological stress and eyesight problems, they added, and was assigned to organize an air force museum...
...kind of winning eclecticism has prevailed in recent Pulitzer awards, mirroring a two-decade trend in contemporary composition. Since 1980 there have been prizes for neoconservatives like David Del Tredici, committed serialists like the late Roger Sessions and unabashed proponents of tonality like Stephen Albert...
...Dover, Del...