U.S. Flights to Cuba Resume

U.S. Flights to Cuba Resume - "Hundreds of waving, screaming Cubans greeted a chartered Boeing jetliner carrying 203 passengers to Havana this morning as the United States resumed direct flights to Cuba." AP, July 15, 1998.
US Airlines To Resume Cuban Flights - "More than 200 eager passengers took off this morning in a chartered Boeing jetliner as the United States resumed direct flights to Cuba." AP, July 15, 1998.
U.S., Cuba Resume Direct Passenger Flights - "The United States and Cuba restarted direct passenger charter flights Wednesday after a two-year break following the 1996 shooting of two small U.S. planes flown by Cuban exiles." Reuters, July 15, 1998.
U.S. to Get Tough on Exiles Headed for Cuban Waters - "Determined to clamp down on exiles who enter Cuban territory illegally, the Clinton administration plans to declare most of the Florida coast a 'security zone' where the U.S. Coast Guard may take special precautions." Miami Herald, July 15, 1998.
Americans Find Cuba Too Hard to Resist - "Despite strict travel restrictions and frigid relations between the Cuban and U.S. governments, thousands of Americans are defying U.S. law and spending their vacations in Cuba, this hemisphere's last Communist outpost." Chicago Tribune, July 6, 1998.

BACKGROUND ARTICLES

Clinton Takes Steps Vs. Cuba - "Critics of President Clinton's Cuba policy say he isn't getting tough enough with Fidel Castro's government for shooting down two unarmed U.S. civilian planes off the Cuban coast." U.S. News, 1996.
Clinton Approves Sanctions Against Cuba - "Issuing a 'powerful, unified message to Havana,' President Clinton Tuesday approved harsh new sanctions against Cuba for shooting two civilian planes from the skies over the Florida Straits." USA Today, March 12, 1996.
USA Today - an index of articles about the 1996 shoot down of U.S. civilian planes by Cubans.

RELATED WEB SITES

U.S.-Cuba Policy - from the U.S. State Department.
Republic of Cuba - official web site, including articles and a section on travel and tourism.
Cuba Solidarity - updates, press releases and news on efforts to end the U.S. blockade against Cuba.
Close Up Foundation U.S. Policy Toward Cuba - background information about U.S. policy. June 1997.
Brothers to the Rescue - conducts search and rescue missions for rafts off the coast of Cuba. Includes a section on the 1996 shooting of two Brothers to the Rescue aircraft by Cuba MiGs.

CNN Profile: Fidel Castro