Cuba on the Defensive

Homecomings of all sorts for Castro's legions

The first man off the plane walked with a severe limp; the second hobbled down the stairs on crutches; the third had to be helped out the door. One by one, 43 more walking wounded emerged, looking grimy and bedraggled; some were shirtless but most wore torn blue jeans or other work clothes that they had pulled on hastily when the fighting began eight days earlier. The last eleven of the 57 Cubans injured in the U.S. invasion of Grenada and sent home to Havana last week had to be carried off the plane on...

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