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- NATION, Page 23American NotesFLORIDAVictory For a Terrorist
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- "The Venezuelans stiffed us. They really did." The Bush
- Administration official was complaining about how Venezuelan
- authorities placed Orlando Bosch, a convicted anti-Castro Cuban
- terrorist, on an airliner bound for Miami in February 1988. His
- arrival in the U.S. presented the Reagan Administration with
- a quandary: lock Bosch up or free a man widely seen as a hero
- in Florida's Cuban-exile community?
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- For more than two years, Reagan and Bush officials tried to
- avoid facing the issue. They treated the former pediatrician,
- now 63, mainly as an immigration problem, keeping him jailed
- in Miami as an "excludable alien" while trying to find a
- country that would accept him. Meanwhile, Florida Republicans
- pressed for his release. Last week the Justice Department
- yielded to the pressure, freeing the Castro foe. Explained one
- official: "The Cuba lobby did it again."
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- Bosch will be kept under virtual house arrest while the
- State Department tries to find a country to which to ship him.
- But he seems undaunted by the restrictions. Although he must
- log all visitors and wear an electronic anklet, Bosch vows that
- he will "speak to anybody I want to" during the three hours a
- day he is free to walk the streets of Miami's Little Havana.
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