Shortly after his arrival in Cuba, the Associated Press's Daniel Harker encountered Fidel Castro at a reception in the French embassy. "Why did they ever send you to Havana?" asked Castro. Marker's answer was blunt and honest. "I guess the A.P. thought I was expendable," he said. Four years after Castro's revolution sealed the island from nosy newsmen, only three Western correspondents all wire service men remain on duty in Havana.
Harker himself is a replacement, sent up from Colombia after Harold K. Milks, then the A.P.'s Havana bureau chief,...
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