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- <text id=89TT1909>
- <title>
- July 24, 1989: World Notes:Cuba
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- July 24, 1989 Fateful Voyage:The Exxon Valdez
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 33
- World Notes
- CUBA
- No Clemency For a Hero
- </hdr><body>
- <p> As one of only five men recognized as a Hero of the
- Republic of Cuba, the country's highest honor, former Major
- General Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez had reason to hope for clemency
- from his comrade of 30 years, Fidel Castro. It did not come. At
- dawn last Thursday, Ochoa, 57, and three other former army
- officers convicted only 16 days earlier of drug trafficking were
- executed by firing squad near Havana.
- </p>
- <p> In a speech to the ruling 29-member Council of State
- rejecting appeals of the four former officers, Castro expressed
- hope that the U.S. and Cuba can now cooperate in solving "our
- common problem" of drug smuggling from South America. That
- conciliatory line was a far cry from his flat denials in the
- past of charges by Washington that some Cuban military officials
- were part of the narcotics pipeline to the U.S. As a first step
- in his country's crackdown, Castro said, Cuban pilots will begin
- shooting down any unidentified airplane flying over the island
- that ignores orders to land.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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