The Michigan Daily-Friday, June 6, 1980-Page 11
Cuban sealift nearing last days;
final boats could carry convicts
KEY WEST, Fla. (UPI) - The Cuban
sealift that has brought more than
100,000 refugees to American shores
appeared to be nearing an end yester-
day, and officials said many of those
coming in on the last wave appeared to
be criminals.
A Customs official, who asked not to
be identified, said the late arriving
boats carried many refugees with
shaved heads, indicating they had
recently been inmates of Cuban
prisons.
"IT LOOKS like that's what's coming
in on the last wave,"he said.
Radioed reports from the Cuban port
of Mariel indicated as few as 22
American boats remained there
waiting for refugees, and Radio
Havana reported that the Peruvian
Embassy - where the exodus of almost
110,000 Cubans began - was virtually
empty.
A Radio Havana report monitored in
Miami said Cuban officials entered the
Peruvian Embassy in Havana Wed-
nesday and found only 33 persons
remaining of the 10,800 who jammed in-
Carter,
Kennedy
meet in
Was,_D.C.
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views of the issues."
KENNEDY ARRIVED about three
minutes late for the 4:30 p.m. EDT
meeting and was greeted by Frank
Moore, Carter's congressional liaison
chief. He entered the White House west
wing without commenting to waiting
reporters.
Some of the president's staff peered
from White House windows and others
watched from balconies on the adjacent
Old Executive Office Building as the
Massachusetts senator's car drove up.
In Boston yesterday morning, Ken-
nedy told reporters he was standing by
his assertion Tuesday night that he
would continue to press his challenge to
Carter's re-nomination, even though
the president has amassed the delegate
majority he will need to become the
party's standard bearer.
WHILE CARTER aides have been
hoping Kennedy would abandon his
challenge, Carter himself indicated he
thought Kennedy would take his cam-
paign all the way to the August
Democratic convention.
At a Wednesday night party for
congressional supporters, Carter said,
"My anticipation is he will carry his
forces and his popularity and his
strength and his delegates and his deep
belief in issues to the convention. That's
part of the democratic process, and
need not cause us fear or concern or
trepidation."
Carter said he looked forward to a
continuing contest with Kennedy, "if
necessary."
Nonetheless, the president has sought
peace with his rival in recent days, of-
fering to accommodate Kennedy's view
in drafting a party platform,,
to the walled courtyard seeking a way
out of Cuba.
THE REMAINING persons included
the 25 who crashed through the wall
around the embassy in a hijacked bus
on Good Friday and set in motion the
events that led to the sealift.
Radio Havana reported that those 25
had been denied permission to leave
Cuba. They were allowed to remain in
custody of Peruvian embassy officials
but were moved to another building, the
radio station said.
President Carter announced yester-
day that the people responsible for the
arrival of the Panamanian freighter
Red Diamond with 731 refugees this
week would be prosecuted
"vigorously."
THE CAPTAIN of the freighter, the
Red Diamond, and those responsible
for chartering her services have been
charged under these statutes," Carter
said. "I have instructed the Justice
Department to prosecute these eases
vigorously."
"Any shipowner, captain or crew
member agreeing to travel from U.S. or
foreign ports to Cuba to take refugees to seized regardless of the nation of
the U.S. in violation of American im- registry. Ship captains will face
migration law will face the most severe criminal prosecutions and maximum
penalties under the law," the statement civil fines. Those who charter boats for
said. these purposes will also face criminal
"Ships engaged in such efforts will be prosecution."
g GARGOY LE
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