Word: freed
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...agile Jackson, flirting with the double danger of diplomatic and political disaster throughout the hectic week, ended it with some claims to success. He calmed the Farrakhan issue by disavowing the renegade minister's hateful words and returned to Washington with 48 men freed from Castro's prisons: 22 Americans jailed for alleged criminal offenses, mostly related to drugs, and 26 anti-Castro Cubans who were granted entry into the U.S. (see following story...
...start talks soon on whether he would take back any of the Cuban criminals who had come to the U.S. in the boat exodus from Mariel in 1980. Most notably, he would release 22 Americans held on criminal charges. There was no mention of any Cuban political prisoners being freed...
Jackson plunged on. In an emotional visit to a Cuban jail with the soon-to-be-freed American prisoners, he was tearfully embraced by some of the men. Aware of the criminal records of some, Jackson declared, "We do not come casting judgment about why you are here. You are Americans and you are ours, and we're going to take you home...
Questions about the fate of the hijackers were raised almost immediately after the bloody episode, which began when four young Arab men seized a bus south of Tel Aviv. They threatened to blow up the bus and its 39 passengers if 25 imprisoned Palestinians were not freed. After an almost ten-hour impasse, Israeli commandos attacked the bus. One passenger was killed, seven wounded. Two terrorists were killed instantly, while the other two, according to an official statement the next day, died "on the way to the hospital," presumably of wounds...
After a year of preparation, the Harvard flying club finally got off the ground this year after College officials legally freed the University of any liability for the safety of the club's 60 members. Led by Javier F. Arango '85 and Clifford T. Russell '85, the club took weekend jaunts out of a Mansfield, Mass. airport...