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Cuban Airlift / Cuban-US Relations #228398

CBS Evening News for Friday, Apr 06, 1973
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(Studio) Last of freedom flights from Cuba arrives Miami.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

(Miami, Florida) 400,000 Cubans have immigrated to Miami area since Fidel Castro came to power. More than 260,000 Cubans airlifted from Cuba. Castro says is ending flights because no more Cubans want to come to US. New arrivals say no applications to emigrate have been accepted since 1966.
REPORTER: Bruce Hall

(Studio) Despite recent hijacking agreement with Cuba, United States Secretary of State William Rogers says has been no general improvement in US-Cuban relations
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

Reporter(s):
Cronkite, Walter;
Hall, Bruce
Duration:
00:01:50

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