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...government, only to be denounced as a traitor by Castro six months later and forced to resign; in New York City. Urrutia, who charged that Castro had transformed Cuba into a "Red hell," spent four years under house arrest and in asylum at the Venezuelan and Mexican embassies in Havana before gaining safe-conduct to the U.S., where he led a coalition of 22 anti-Castro exile groups...
Castillo, who was serving a 33-year prison sentence in Cuba for arson, is marking his first anniversary in the U.S. He is one of the 125,000 Cubans who clambered hopefully aboard a ragtag flotilla bound for the U.S. from the harbor of Mariel, 27 miles west of Havana. Most of them were ordinary seekers of liberty. But the Cuban government supplied some of the passengers, including inmates like Castillo, who were taken from prisons and asylums and ordered aboard for the 110-mile trip to Florida. Whatever brought them to the U.S., the Marielitos have one shocking discovery...
More than 70% of the Marielitos settled in Miami's Dade County, joining 600,000 Cubans already there. Particularly in Little Havana, on Miami's near southwest side, the new wave is vividly manifest: everywhere there are shoeshine stands and new immigrants on the streets hawking lemons and limes, flowers, hot peanuts and granizado (flavored ice). But the newcomers' statistical imprint is less charming. Most of them receive food stamps, and 45,000 live below the Government's official poverty line for the area ($7,412 for a family of four). They are committing suicide...
...happiest man of all may have been Red Auerbach, sitting in the box seat who for the 14th time in his life got to light the championship Havana...
...however, the domestic field had become too crowded to suit Trippe, so he abandoned air transportation within the U.S. and formed Pan American. The new company concentrated on international routes; its earliest Key West to Havana run carried just eight passengers in trimotor Fokkers. The airline quickly expanded its routes throughout Latin America and the Pacific. Charles A. Lindbergh, fresh from his solo flight across the Atlantic, soon became a key Pan Am adviser. "Lindbergh," Trippe always maintained, "was our greatest pilot and navigator...