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Fidel Urges Calm in Cuba, Plane Stolen by GunmanHAVANA (API—Fific! Cnslio appealed Saturday for calm in Cuba but warned that any invaders would be thrown back by his expanding civilian militia.■Hie Cuban prime minister did not refer directly either to the United States or the Soviet Union during a one-hour televised speech which was set against the background of these events involving the two great powers:1 A weekend visit of 1.430 U.S. Marines to Guantanamo naval base for rest and recreation and a reported concentration of U. i. worships near Puerto Rica. Government conl rolled newspapersused these I wo incidents to beign-tcn “invasion fever here in Washington, the Marines’ landing was seen as a classic show of^Publication by the Soviet news agency Tass oi a statemen bv premier Khrushchev that Soviet rocket support ^ for Cummust be regarded as srinbf1,c' Some Americans m Moscow took this as an attempt by Khrushchev lo pul a check on Castro by pulling the rug from under him6lff'roport in a Cairo magazine quoting Castro as saying that he and his government wouldnot be such idiots” as to attempt lo seize the Guantanamo by force. In his speech Saturday, Castrodealt with his growing armed forces. But when he said Cuba has arms io defend itself, he did noi. say where the. arm? are com-in g from.With every week tlial passesto will have thousands morn-or-cnimrd defenders in Cuba,*’fnslro said ' Hur enemies know, too, Ihni wilh every day I hill passes Ihrir luw* bn -snrmsshil-]v ir.vnrtinn r»ib:i arc less.'4 ' f)e spoke A the first srailii.dicm ceremony for 1*; now army lieutenant* trained A Hu: mauny Managua military base.CAPT. HERMAN KOSSLER . . . his ship brought- Marinos(AP Photofax)COL. VICTOR B1SCEGLIA , „ . heads Marine forces (AP Photofax/KEY WEST. Fin. (AP)-A Cuban passenger airliner with a. wounded pilot at the controls; landed here Saturday after a plot | to steal the plane in flight burst into gunfire.Aboard the government-owned Aeiovias Q Airlines twin-cngine plane when it readied Key West were 37 persons, including 34 passengers and a crew of three. The! hotly of a military guard lay i xiddled with bullets. jThe pilot, copilot and a boy, 13,, were wounded and the guard was shot dead shortly after the plane}, left Havana on a regularly scheil-j' nlcd flight lo the Isle or Pines,] almost due south of Havana and a few miles off the southwesi mast of Cuba.Military prisoners frequently are transported lo the island by plane, but authorities said there were none aboard I he aircraft.Ahrens said the pilol related that tiie plane was airborne at 7:2n a.m. and S or in minutes later the copilot jumped from his seat, grabbed the guard and shoved o gun into the pilot’s bark.The pilot said he was told to swing around and Hv to Key West and that he replied. '‘You think I’m crazy?'*The remark touched off the shooting and after he was wound* ed (lie pilot headed for Key West, he related.Ahrens said that during. the shooting the guard was killed.‘Only nine persons apparently were involved?‘.Ahrens declared, and the 2fi pthcrs wynl lo go buck to Cuba.' Two others not invnlved are happy to have landed in the United States and am .asking permit ion to slay.'*Ahrens declined tn if fixo-imiis were aboard but roneededIhal “a number of shots were fired M A Otban dm tor a^oaril gave mcdiail hid li» the wounded.
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Florence Morning News
Florence, South Carolina, US
Sun, Oct 30, 1960
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