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Without visas, unable to afford a plane ticket, they arrive in Florida at the rate of 50 to 100 a week in stolen launches, by sailboat, fishermen's dory or makeshift raft, drifting up the Gulf Stream, from Cuba's northern coast 90 miles to the Florida keys. One group of five young men spent 2½ days at sea in an 8-ft. rowboat, at one point hailed a passing freighter for food and water. Their request was refused; it was a Russian ship...
...firing line at Camp Perry, Ohio, the pigtailed blonde in striped shorts wiggled comfortably into prone position on the tarp, and consulted a makeshift wind gauge built of a bent coat hanger, a spent cartridge shell and a bit of nylon hose. Then, tucking the butt of a .22-cal. Winchester Special into her right shoulder, she began perforating the nickel-sized bull's-eye in the target 50 yds. off. With all this to watch, her male competitors in last week's National Smallbore Rifle Championships could scarcely keep their minds on the range. "Not only...
...captured in the disastrous Bay of Pigs landing, but the men are only a tiny fraction of those jammed into jails from one end of Castro's island to the other. After the April attack, some 250,000 political prisoners were herded into jails and makeshift concentration camps. More than 40,000 are still there, waiting and withering in deplorable conditions...
...Cubans were penned up in the baseball stadium, and when they sent up a chant of protest, guards fired submachine-gun bursts over their heads. Sanitation was so bad in Havana's overcrowded Morro Castle that several prisoners fell sick. Doctors among the prisoners set up a makeshift dispensary in a dungeon once used by Spaniards for garrote executions; other prisoners held in a dry moat outside dug holes in the ground with shovels for makeshift toilets. In Havana's huge Blanquita Theater, the militia used dogs to guard 5,000 men and women. The dogs panicked...
...government itself boasted that it had executed 29 persons, including Castro's ex-Agriculture Minister Humberto Sori Marín as well as three Americans, for plotting to assassinate Castro. Foreign correspondents were herded-along with 1,000 or more Cubans whose loyalty to Castro was questioned-into makeshift concentration camps in the Havana Sports Palace and a downtown hotel. Across the island, members of Castro's Rebel Youth, some as young as 14, began patrolling city and village streets at night, encouraged to act as they saw fit if they saw anything suspicious. "Defense committees" drew...