Cuba: And Now the Children?

Hundreds of Cuban families are frantically trying to get their children out of the country. At Havana's Jose Marti Airport last week, adults with airplane tickets were implored to give their seats to children. Some Pan American flights arriving in Miami have as many as 60 children on board, many traveling alone. When Castro's police halted one recent flight carrying 40 children, parents raised such a howl in the airport lobby that the order was rescinded. Behind the new exodus is a new fear: that Castro is planning to take children away from their families in order to train them...

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