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January 11, 1995
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Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Even as Haitians are being
shuttled back home, the U.S.
military is preparing for the ar
rival of 8,000 Cuban refugees
from Panama, who will join their
countrymen at the U.S. Naval
Base here and swell the popula
tion of its tent city to 29,000.
There has been no formal an
nouncement from Washington
of the transfer of the Cubans
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from relief camps in Panama.
But U.S. troops are busily laying
canvas roofs over the wood
frames of dozens of new houses
on stilts that will accommodate
another influx of refugees.
But unlike the case of the Hai
tians, whose stay at the naval
base was cut short by the rein
statement of Haitian President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, there is
no end in sight for the Cubans
caught between their homeland
and the shores of the United
States.
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“I have to be prepared to deal
withthisindefinitely,” said Brig.
Gen. Raymond Ayres, the head
of the refugee operation at
Guantanamo, gesturing to the
seafront Cuban camp his office
overlooks. “Most of the Cubans
still believe the policy will revert
back and somehow, one way or
another, they’'ll get to the U.S.”
U.S. military officials are
studying a plan to arrange spe
cial family visits by Cuban-
Americans to their relatives at
Guantanamo. The Clinton ad
ministration has said that only
refugees who are unaccompa
nied minors or sick or elderly
will be allowed into the United
States.
The Cubans must leave Pana
ma by the end of March.
Guantanamo has hosted tens
of thousands of Cuban and Hai
tian refuges for the past six
months at a cost of S2OO million
amonth to American taxpayers.
On Tuesday, two Coast Guard
cutters took 500 Haitians back
to Port-au-Prince, the Haitian
capital, and the last 2,200 are
expected to follow them by the
end of the week. That would
empty a Guantanamo Haitian
camp that peaked at 21,000 in
August.
Despite the restoration of
Aristide in October, Haitians are
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still afraid of lawless loyalists of
the ousted military government
who continue to terrorize civil
ians. They are returning against
their will.
Some Cubans said they sym
pathized with the Haitians.
“If I had been President
Clinton, I would have allowed
Haitians the opportunity to go
to the U.S., because they’re hu
man beings, too,” said Gilberto
Valderama, 41, the president of
the 2,000-strong Cuban commu
nity at Guantanamo’s Camp
Romeo.
Eight hundred Cubans, faced
with life in limbo, have opted to
return home. About half of them
swam a mile or so or jumped a
fence, bravingalong, land-mined
stretch that separates the U.S.
military facility from Commu
nist Cuba.
Most Cubans, however, are
angry, bored, impatient — or
simply making do.
“How long are they going to
keep us in this dust bowl?” asked
Tomas Isabel Diaz de la Fe, 48,
who says the eroded, cactus
studded setting is exacerbating
hisasthma. “This is punishment
for a crime we haven’t yet com
mitted.”
Teresa Martinez, 60, chimed
in: “People live better in jail in
the U.S. than we live here.”
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FBI disciplines agents
in 1992 shootout with
white supremacists
B Unarmed woman
killed by FBI sharp
shooter in 10-day
Idaho seige.
By Michael J. Sniffen
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON
The Federal Bureau of Investi
gation on Friday disciplined 12
employees, including its deputy
director, in the killing by an FBI
sharpshooter of a white separat
ist’s wife during a 1992 siege in
Idaho.
No one was fired, but acting
deputy director Larry Potts re
ceived a letter of censure, FBI
Director Louis Freeh said in an
nouncing the actions. Punish
ments ranged from an oral repri
mand and written censure to sus
pension from duty.
Freeh said that while there were
“no crimes or intentional miscon
duct,” those punished “demon
strated inadequate performance,
improper judgment, neglect of
duty, and failure to exert proper
managerial oversight.”
The Weaver incident was “one
of the most dangerous and poten
tially violent situations to which
FBI agents have ever been as
signed,” the director said.
The siegebeganon Aug. 21,1992,
when U.S. marshals went to sep
aratist Randy Weaver’s mountain
cabin in the northwestern U.S.
state to arrest him on a weapons
charge. A marshal and Weaver’s
son werekilled in a shootout, and
Weaver, his wife and others re
mained in the cabin.
The FBI hostage rescue team
was called to the scene and encir
cled the Weaver cabin the next
day. An FBI sniper, Lon Horiuchi,
shot and wounded Weaver when
heand another man emerged from
the cabin. The sniper fired again
as the two retreated, but the bul
let struck and killed Mrs. Vicki
Weaver, who was standing un
armed in the doorway.
The lengthy internal investiga
tion focused on the actions of the
sharpshooter, of his immediate
supervisors and of Potts, whothen
headed the FBl's criminal investi
gative division and helped set
ground rules for the standoff.
Commenting on the death of
Vicki Weaver, Freeh said no ad
ministrative action was warrant
ed against the sharpshooter. “The
FBI sniper’s shots were taken in
defense of other law enforcement
officers on the scene and were
consistent with the law and FBI
policy.”
Horiuchi later testified in court
that when he fired, he thought
one of the men was getting ready
to shoot at a law enforcement he
licopter.
