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Lighter by 30 Ibs. and paste-white after three months in prison, Alan Robert Nye, 32, of Whiting, Ind., this week faced a three-man revolutionary tribunal in Havana and pleaded not guilty to a charge of plotting to assassinate Fidel Castro. The Korean war pilot (U.S. Navy) heard the...
HAVANA, April 12--A Cuban military tribunal today pronounced a death sentence on Alan Robert Nye for an alleged assassination attempt against Fidel Castro, but allowed the 32-year-old American to leave prison a free man.
The tribunal suspended its death sentence against the gangling Whiting, Ind., man on condition he leave Cuba within 48 hours. Nye expects to be gone with hours to spare. The court said the sentence will be executed if Nye ever returns to Cuba.
Nye, a former U.S. naval pilot, walked out of La Cabana fortress overlooking Havana at dawn, nearly two hours after the three-man tribunal had declared him guilty of attempting to kill Castro, the rebel chieftain who is now Cuba's premier.
Castro made it clear that no rule of law was involved; his bloody vengeance was fully justified. The trouble was the way "enemies" used it to "slander" Cuba. "Never has such an intense and violent campaign of discredit against Cuba been waged throughout the Americas. We must deprive the enemy...