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...mean curve from Fidel Castro. The Beard decided that Sandy should stay in the bush league, kept him in Cuba for five years. Finally Sandy, 37, succeeded in getting passage for himself, his wife Migdalia and 13-year-old daughter Eloísa aboard one of the twice-daily Varadero-to-Miami freedom shuttles that have ferried almost 64,000 refugees from Cuba in the past 17 months. As usual, Castro confiscated all his property and money. "I no have anything except my family and my freedom," said he, "but that is good now." It got better when...
Since the twice-a-day flights began between Miami and Cuba's Varadero last December, more than 14,000 refugees have left, running the total number of Cuban refugees in the U.S. to 270,000. In some cases, Castro tried to smuggle in agents; he even tried to export a few lepers on the sly. But immigration screening has been tight, and few ringers have slipped past interrogators. Some 30% of the refugees have remained in South Florida, and other concentrations are around New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and New Orleans. The rest are scattered over the 50 states...
...waiting, the hoping, the praying was ended for a fortunate few in the crowd. A Pan American DC-7 taxied up the ramp after a 60-minute hop from the onetime Cuban resort town of Varadero, carrying the first planeload of refugees to leave Cuba under last month's air-evacuation agreement. Aboard were 75 passengers -15 men, 31 women, 29 children. Before the week was out, another 187 had been flown over to join the 5,000 Cubans who journeyed across by sea in the two months since Castro suddenly decided to let his people...
Freedom House. Castro is treating outgoing refugees with disdain. Many were notified of their departure at 1 or 2 a.m., given only an hour to round up a few belongings while militiamen took inventory of their homes, then were bundled into a bus for the trip to Varadero. They were allowed 44 Ibs. of luggage; everything else belonged to the state. "I didn't bring anything with me," said one woman. "I was afraid they wouldn't allow me on the plane...
...agreement, according to Washington, will do away entirely with the dangerous small-boat traffic from the port of Camarioca. Instead, the U.S. will set up an airlift of at least two flights a day-six days a week-between Miami and Varadero 70 miles east of Havana. The flights will carry 65 refugees each, or from 3,000 to 4,000 a month, and begin about ten days after the official announcement. More than 150,000 Cubans are expected to sign up. Immediate relatives of exiles in the U.S. will get first priority, then anyone else who wants to leave...