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HEWs in-If at iron own,IIundsndayarter(houtpci iccuy, vvd» * .xjyjyj iimca n _—- stronOklahomans Leave CubaAfter JailPione holde 1959. i some !ing.The !407.000 i it was Fricfay At tha inum s6.000 iHAVANA, March 13 !.?—A I . the Ea S. television editor and a com- Russ panion who have been having mitt me trouble with Cuban authorities qqq m] finally left Cuba today—but not ancj n before a last minute detention {he ea by police. |)0r M;Roger Sharpe, news director an orb of station KOTV in Tulsa. Okla., and John Taylor of Stillwater,Okla., along with Ralph Sanders, a reporter - photographer for radio KOTV. were detained briefly erfui e this afternoon. But they were transrr freed in time to catch a plane miles for Florida. PioneeSharpe and Taylor, a Demo- 1 lt;lfll° cratie candidate for Congress in The Oklahoma, were detained for stratec nine hours Friday after taking range pictures inside Cuba's Institute feat t of National Reform. Sharpe said the da ;ntelligence officers told him tures they feared the films might he The} used for “bad propaganda” metho against the regime of Prime cai df Minister Fidel Castro.After they were freed in that ^ c incident they went back to tak- sajejjj ing pictures today. sompThen this afternoon, evewit- fjnitec nesses said, they were hauled in 0f p]a by police again after the Amer- vear icans took pictures of a Cuban ^shoeshine boy. ^ ,Police headquarters spokes- $pace men said they had no informa- on a , tion on the later detention and can p( the Oklahomans could not be \YTTG contacted before their departure ^for the United States.Intelligence agents early to- (See day returned cameras and film they had seized from Sharpe Friday. After the earlier detention Sharpe said Lt. Manuel Fernandez of the intelligence agency gave him “a written paper saying we are free to lake whatever pictures we want.”“Fernandez wanted to know how come we took so many pictures of soldiers,” he went on.“1 told him that's what the peo- (pie hack in Oklahoma want to t , see—what Cuba looks like.” for fiThe lieutenant told Sharpe, p,!p , “People come down here and somelimes stage photographs for bad propaganda. SharpeShRlt;LOCHou operal(Scp OKLAHOMANS on Page 2) countttheir
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Amarillo Daily News
Amarillo, Texas, US
Mon, Mar 14, 1960
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