Evening star., 1961-05-21
CUBA
10 Prisoners Free
ToCome to Capital
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spokesman for the group as
sured newsrnen I'VE are going
to return to Cuba"
immigration officials said
the prisoners are free to pro-
ceed to Washington if they
wish, but DR.. Miro Cardona
said there is no need for them
to go to Washington since the
revolutionary council will take
care of matters"
The prisoners, captured dur
ing the invasion April IT, ad-
journed to DR.. Miro Cardinals
home after a four-hour meet
ing with other revolutinary
leaders at the Fontainebleau
Hotel in Miami Beach.
Meeting with the prisoners
were four members of the Dem
ocratic Revolutionary Front -
Sergio Carlo, Ramon Callado,
Manuel Cobo and Oscar SalaS.
Mother Asked to Leave
The mother of one of the
prisoners, Sara Rios de Sueiros,
waited three hours to see her
son, then was asked by United
\ States border pat rolm e n to
leave. Also present without be-
ing able to see him was Mr..
Carbo'S sister, Aleli.
Mr.. Carlo said his group was
chosen by the remainder of the
1900 prisoners taken in the un-
successful April II invasion to
represent them in the United
States.
4 Sergio Carlo is editor of Prem
sa Libre, a Havana newspaper
now published in exile in
Miami.
In addition to Ulises Carlo,
others on the committee were
listed as Capt. Luis More Del
gado, Jose Perullo, Mirto Col
lazo Valdes, Waldo Castroverde,
Hugo LueiroS, Ceferino Alvarez
CaStallon, Gustavo Garcia
Monies, Felix Eloy Perez and
Reinaldo Pico Ramon.
While the committee was in
the air, enroute to Miami,
Havana Radio said Mr.. Castro
was sending the prisoners to
deal not with a neutral coun-
try but with the United States. "
In Washington, the govern
ment indicated it would go
along with a move by private
citizens to swap bulldozers for
the imprisoned invaders, the
State Department said purely
humanitarian" considerations
would guide the Government.
One citizens drive would be
headed by Mrs. Eleanor Roose-
welt, DR.. Milton S. Eisenhower
and Walter P. Reuther.
Intermediates Spurned
The Miami News offered to
accept funds from throughout
! the Americas to pay for the
machinery, estimated to cost
Sc million to S27 million de-
pending on the models chosen.
In a signed editorial on page
one of its edition for Sunday,
News President James M. Cox,
J jr. said The pesos and colons
and nickels we receive here at
! the News are going to be passed
on to this committee. And free
people everywhere in the Amer
icas are going to get up those
tractors for this ugly barter.
Some people in the Amer
icas have argued that we should
not do such a sordid business
with the man in Havana. We
agree that no free government
in the Americas should. Castro
should not be dignified by gov
ernments responding to his
. medieval proposition. But free
people can respond free
people can buy a life and show
the world our regards for a
human life"
Mr.. Castro told a television
audience in Havana today, I'VE
don't need Intermediates" He
J said he would send a prisoner
committee to Washington to
negotiate the deal.
! The most important of the
prisoners would be relinquished
"only after the arrival of the
last lots of bulldozers," Mr.
Castro stipulated.
However, the Prime Minister
said he would exchange the
most important one. Manuel
Artime, invasion leader, for
Eel Gancho" Molina, pro-Cas-
tro Cuban convicted in New
York in the Staying of a 9-year-
old Venezuelan girl.
"Mr Kennedy now has the
floor" Mr.. Castro said.
In Miami, a front page edi-