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...Russia no one would be wearing U.S. Army-style combat fatigues. But otherwise, Cuba's third anniversary celebration of Fidel Castro's rise to power might have taken place in Moscow's Red Square. Mounting his own version of Lenin's tomb-the José Marti monument in Havana's Plaza de la Revolucion-Castro and his Cuban commissars proudly reviewed the crack units of a Communist-trained, Communist-supplied military machine that is bigger than that of any Western Hemisphere country except...
Hundreds of Cuban families are frantically trying to get their children out of the country. At Havana's Jose Marti Airport last week, adults with airplane tickets were implored to give their seats to children. Some Pan American flights arriving in Miami have as many as 60 children on board, many traveling alone. When Castro's police halted one recent flight carrying 40 children, parents raised such a howl in the airport lobby that the order was rescinded. Behind the new exodus is a new fear: that Castro is planning to take children away from their families...
...Have Fuel." Dawn seeped over the mountains around the airport as Pilot Rickards, in communication with Continental officials in the tower, continued to stall for time. Rickards told the increasingly nervous gunmen that Havana's José Marti Airport would not accommodate the huge jetliner, offered instead to substitute a smaller DC-7 already en route to El Paso for the flight. By this time, the El Paso drama had become an affair of state; if, as was automatically assumed, the hijackers were indeed Castro henchmen, drastic U.S. steps might have been required. In Washington, President Kennedy was kept...
...bulky turboprop, which looks much like a Soviet Ilyushin 18, touched down at José Marti airport, a waiting crowd of Cubans cheered and youthful armed militiamen saluted. But the cheers died abruptly when the big "Eastern Air Lines" markings became clear and the pistol-packing waiter climbed out. The exuberant crowd had been waiting for an entirely different visitor-Soviet Spaceman Yuri Gagarin...
...perhaps on Moscow's advice, to go slower in proclaiming the next step in Communizing the country. The only real surprise of the week was the hijacked Eastern Air Lines Electra that landed unexpectedly (the Cubans seemed as surprised as the passengers) at Havana's José Marti Airport. Just as unexpected was a cloudburst that accompanied the star visitor, Soviet Spaceman Yuri Gagarin, into Cuba. The rain soaked Gagarin, ruined his beautiful white uniform, and left the militia road guard standing unhappily at attention knee-deep in water...