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Last week four Brothers to the Rescue pilots, three in their twenties and the fourth a 45-year-old father of a college freshman, flying two unarmed Cessna 337's were shot down without warning or provocation by Cuban MiG's over international waters. Brothers to the Rescue is a humanitarian organization that patrols the Florida straits for Cuban rafters fleeing the island; they have saved the lives of thousands of Cubans fleeing Castro's tyranny as well as many Haitians during their emigration...
...defanged at any other time," reports TIME's J.F.O. McAllister. "But it's a political fact of life that this is an election year and Clinton cannot give the Republicans a simple issue they can beat him with. He can't appear to be wimpy after the Cuban MiG's shot down two planes." The most controversial portions of Helms-Burton would bar shareholders, officers and any others connected with a foreign company that makes use of property expropriated by the Cuban government from entering into the U.S. "Under such a provision, the Queen of England, who owns shares...
Since February 24, when Cuban MIG fighter jets shot down two planes piloted by members of a Cuban-American exile group, the American government and media have treated the relationship between the two countries very seriously. On March 2, the Clinton administration announced that it would tighten sanctions against Castro's regime. The press has focused on the technicalities of territorial airspace and profiled outraged exile leaders. However, the national uproar over this incident has been ideologically and historically circumscribed, leaving most Americans with a lopsided view of Cuban-American relations and American foreign policy...
...defanged at any other time," reports TIME's J.F.O. McAllister. "But it's a political fact of life that this is an election year and Clinton cannot give the Republicans a simple issue they can beat him with. He can't appear to be wimpy after the Cuban MiG's shot down two planes." The most controversial portions of Helms-Burton would bar shareholders, officers and any others connected with a foreign company that makes use of property expropriated by the Cuban government from entering into the U.S. "Under such a provision, the Queen of England, who owns shares...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton today called Fidel Castro's regime "repressive and violent," and announced a list of sanctions designed to send a stern message to Havana. Clinton was responding to the downing of two Cessna aircraft by Cuban MiG jets last Saturday afternoon. Cuban leaders insist that the two planes, belonging to an anti-Castro organization "Brothers to the Rescue," were in Cuban airspace, and were warned to turn back. Clinton Monday unveiled a battery of punitive measures against Cuba. Included were proposals to compensate the families of the downed airmen with funds from frozen Cuban assets...