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NEWARK (AP)— The long wait by two New Jersey men taken prisoner in the Cuban in vasion, has ‘ended in a ‘joyous Christmas reunion with their families and friends. But for the loved ones of some of the other Cuban in vaders, there was still uncer tainnty—and hope. Cries of “Viva Cuba Libra” (Long Live Free Cuba) broke from a crowd of about 50 per sons at Newark Airport yester day as they welcomed home Jose Manuel Macias and Carlos Garcia. The two men arrived on an airliner from Miami. They were among 1,113 prisoners re turned...to ‘the United States from Cuban jails in Operation Ransom. I : was a T-year-old U.S. Army veteran, said his war with Cuban premier Fidel. Cas to was ~~ over. Will Fight Castro “I live for’ only one thing,” he said. ‘I live to fight Castro. My’ plan’ is‘to fight Castro any way I can,” Macias wept as he greeted his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jose Macias, who operate the Ha vana Luncheonette at 178 Ferry St, and his two sisters, Gladys and Alejandrina. Garcia, 30, of 293 Oliver St, was,embraced by his wife and then his six-year-old daughter, Lidia, jumped into his arms and ‘hugged him with tears streaming down her cheeks. “I surfeel very, very happy,” he said. As the two men left the air port, the crowd followed him, singing the Cuban national an them. Fifteen Cubans who had been living in North Jersey were be lieved to have been captured in the invasion, and Macias and Garcia were questioned by friends and relatives of the men who have not returned. In Miami Hospital Antonio Arteaga, 24, co-owner of the 20th Century Luncheon ette at 157 Walnut St, asked about his brother, Ramon, 26, Macias told him that Ramon had been hospitalized in Mi ami suffering from malnutrition and stomach trouble. ‘Mrs. Robert W. Kean, Jr., of 658 Mount Pleasant Ave., West Orange, flew to Miami to lo cate her brother, Joaquin Sil verio, 36, and was to return home today. Relatives said they did not know if she had found her brother. Full of hope, but worried, 11-year-old Julio Gonzalez and his brother, Jorge, 13, who have been waiting for some word about their father, Jose Luis Gonzalez. Gonzalez, 41, was wounded in both legs: in the invasion His sons live in homes on op posite sides of Mohawk Ave. in White Meadow Lake, Rockaway Township—Julio with Mr.’ and ‘Mrs. Richard J. Lattely and Jorge with Mr. and Mrs. Ar thur A. Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald, a father of three, said that “every time the phone rings, Jorge’ jumps from his chair. We don't know whether their ‘father made it,or not.” “We've made room for the boys’ father, if he made it out, Mrs. Lattely said. The boys’ mother, Mrs. Aur ora Gonzalez, remained in Ha vana with an older son and daughter, Nancy ‘and Pepe. ‘They had planned to come to the United States in October, but the blockade forced them to abandon the idea, (sée CUBANS, Page 2)
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Red Bank Register
Red Bank, New Jersey, US
Wed, Dec 26, 1962
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