First Boats From Cuba
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) MIAMI, Oct. 11. The first of several boats that sailed to Cuba from Florida to take advantage of Premier Fidel Castro’s “open door” policy, in defiance of United States warnings, was scheduled to arrive at Key West today with 17 refugees on board.
Earlier the United States State Department had warned that unauthorised trips before formal arrangements were completed might jeopardise a later exodus. Although yesterday was the date set by Castro for the beginning of the sanctioned exodus of refugees to the United States, only the one boat was sighted by the Coast Guard in the Florida straits.
A Coast Guard spokesman said, however, that increasing boat traffic sailing south from Florida indicated a CubaFlorida freedom shuttle might be about to start. Negotiations between the United States and Cuba for an “orderly” exodus of refugees were complicated by Cuba’s charges that a Cuban coastal guard was shot and killed on Friday by an exile “mercenary.”
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30879, 12 October 1965, Page 21
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