To the editor:
One horrendous episode was missing from the list of previous terrorist attacks that appeared in today’s New York Times (2001-9-12: A18) – the 1976 mid-air bombing of a Cuban passenger airliner that claimed the lives of all 73 people on board. As President Bush considers retaliation against not only the organizers of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, but also against those countries that harbor them, he might well remember that Orlando Bosch, one of the Cuban exiles connected to the 1976 bombing, received a pardon from his father George at the urging of his brother Jeb (a pardon rightly questioned by the New York Times). The pardon prevented Bosch’s expulsion from the country and provided him with safe haven in Florida. Moreover, Bosch’s comrades continue to organize deadly bombings in Cuba from their base in Miami.
Joel Andreas
Los Angeles, September 12, 2001