The World - News from Oct. 12, 1987
Cuban combat pilots regularly practice retaliatory strikes against Homestead Air Force Base in Florida, a Cuban air force general who defected to the United States five months ago said in an interview with the New York Times. Brig. Gen. Rafael del Pino Diaz, a former deputy air force commander, said Cuba recognizes that it is no match for the United States and that the training is strictly defensive. Its intention in counterattacking would be to provoke the United States into an even stronger action “so the Soviet Union would become involved,” he said.
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