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Dope dealers and dissidents are among Jesse's 48 freed...
...possession. But after they stepped from their plane at Dulles International Airport near Washington, a cheering throng of friends and relatives greeted them with tears of joy that transcended the politics of Jackson's ploy. Said William Snyder, a paper-mill foreman in Calhoun, Tenn., and father of freed Prisoner Alan Snyder, 24: "The Reagan Administration may be more or less disappointed, but I am tickled to death...
...hurried negotiations, the State Department had granted entry to the 26 freed Cubans. After meetings with immigration officials, most took a complimentary flight provided by Air Florida to a welcoming reception in Miami. Six of the 22 Americans Jackson brought home were arrested at Dulles on criminal charges, including importation of hashish into the U.S., possession of dangerous drugs and violation of parole; the others quickly dispersed to rejoin their families...
Among the plantados freed last week...
...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...