Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least result in the swifter return of the skyjacked passengers, crews and planes. Frank Loy, deputy assistant secretary of state for transportation and telecommunications, told a congressional committee last week that Castro is "fed up" with the skyjackings. If they continue at their present rate, he said, the Cuban government "may adopt measures of its own" to stop them...
...passengers, the largest number skyjacked to date. The same day, four men armed with guns and dynamite took over an Ecuadorian airliner en route from Quito to Miami with 81 passengers and forced it to land in Havana. Both aircraft, with crews and passengers, were held briefly by Cuban authorities and released. Later in the week a National Airlines Key West-New York Boeing 727 with 47 aboard was diverted to Cuba by a young U.S. Navy deserter who said he preferred Cuban exile to duty in Viet...
...determined group of Cubans intent on escaping the austerities of Fidel Castro's Cuba provided a bloody counterpoint last week to the nation's celebrations of the tenth anniversary of Fidel's reign. In the largest single escape attempt of the Castro years, 88 managed to fight their way past border guards and through the barbed wire surrounding the big U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay,* near the island's southern tip. Fifty or 60 others were left behind, killed or captured by Cuban guards...
...picked up in Cienfuegos and Camagüey, and by the time the truck reached the city of Guantánamo, about 100 persons were aboard. Another 40 were waiting there. The driver set off toward the base, timing his arrival at the boundary for 8 a.m., when the Cuban guards surrounding the base were to be changed...
...refugees were flown, one said: "We were superhungry." A mother said that she did not want her child "to grow up under Communism," and others complained of arduous working conditions. While it is true that the U.S. and Cuba reached an agreement in 1965 under which 132,421 Cubans so far have left for the U.S., the average Cuban applicant must put in one to two years as an unpaid agricultural laborer until his name comes up on the list. For some Cubans, that is too long...