CUBA’S NEW OFFER
More Relatives To Be Freed MIAMI, January 32. The Red Croat today opeeded up plans to meet Cube’s unexpected offer to free more than 1000 peroons this week. More than 900 relatives of the recently freed Cuban invaders will be brought to the United States aboard the cargo ship. Shirley Lykes, at present unloading ransom cargo *t Havana. The first freighter to carry supplies to ransom the Cuban prisoners, the African Pilot, returned to the United States on December 27 with 922 relatives of the prisoners. Since then, 179 Cubans holding American citizenship papers have been flown to the United States. The announcement from the Swiss Embassy in Havana tost night that Cuban authorities had promised to give exit permits to between 900 and 1000 Cuban citizens directly related to foe invasion prisoners came as an abrupt and unexplained surprise.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30038, 24 January 1963, Page 8
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143CUBA’S NEW OFFER Press, Volume CII, Issue 30038, 24 January 1963, Page 8
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