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...Castro: All these attacks against Cuba are done with civilian planes. To tell the truth, these attacks have happened repeatedly over the years, and it has created a condition of distrust...
...February, Castro admitted, his patience had run out. In the absence of a response from the U.S, he decided to take action. "We instructed the armed forces that we would not tolerate it again," he said. The Cessnas' fate was therefore sealed the minute they decided to venture back near Cuban airspace. On Tuesday, Madeleine Albright, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., read from transcripts of intercepted radio conversations between Cuban ground control and the pilots of the two MiGs that blew away the Cessnas. Just after he fired a missile, one pilot gleefully spoke of shooting off his target...
...travel and asking Congress to compensate the victims' families with money taken from $100 million in frozen Cuban assets. The real bite came, however, with Clinton's sudden support for the Helms-Burton bill, which will probably pass Congress this week. The President had been resisting the bill, but Castro ordered the planes shot down during an election year, and Clinton feels he cannot afford to alienate Cuban Americans in the crucial states of Florida and New Jersey...
...planes to head back to Florida before they got close to Cuba. The damage has been done, however, and it seems nothing can stop Cuban-American relations from sliding back to the depths of the cold war. And there they seem destined to remain, frozen until the day Castro no longer rules...
...exclusive conversation with Reginald K. Brack Jr., chairman of Time Inc., Joelle Attinger, TIME's chief of correspondents, and Cathy Booth, the Miami bureau chief, Castro tried to explain and justify shooting down the two defenseless planes...