The Hemisphere: They Would Be Free

While Havana undergoes its trial by bomb, another city, 200 miles across the Florida Straits, has become a Cuban refugee camp. By fishing boat and by yacht, by commercial airliner or hijacked plane, an estimated 500 Cubans each day are now fleeing Castro's Cuba, and most of them converge on Miami. By last week an incongruous lump of more than 30,000 worried Cubans had crowded into the winter vacationland, and more were coming.

The politically reliable young men can sometimes sign up with a resistance group, or go off to a crude camp in the boondocks, where they learn guerrilla warfare. Only...

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