U.S. Baseball Game Halted by Authorities
From Times Wire Reports
June 23, 2005
Cuban authorities took away baseball bats, balls and gloves from Cuban
youths to keep them from playing with U.S. officials in Havana, the
State Department said.
When the Americans, who one official said were chiefly Marines who
guard the U.S. interests section in Havana, tried to use their own
equipment to play, the authorities stopped the youths from entering the
field.
"This is a normal and a good thing, I think, to have
interactions with locals, to help support democracy and human rights
activists," State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said. "The Cuban
government didn't think so, however."
