In an effort to create a safe and orderly flow of refugees. the Johnson administration. through the Swiss Embassy in Havana. negotiated a memorandum of understanding with Cuba. Under this pact. the Government agreed to provide air transportation for between 3.000 and 4.000 refugees a month to the United States. In order to reunite families which had been separated. priority was to be given to relatives of Cubans living on the mainland. To renege on this commitment now would provide Castro with a considerable political. psychological. and propaganda victory. Would we not be accusedand rightly so--of playing politics with the lives and welfare of innocent victims of the cold war?
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