Dash to Freedom.

• Position: Cubans try to swim to U.S. - Brief Article

Six Cubans, fleeing their island's grinding poverty, make a desperate attempt to reach American soil--or sand--and a chance at U.S. citizenship. After the U.S. Coast Guard stopped their small boat 200 yards off Surfside, Florida, the Cubans began a headlong swim for the beach. The U.S. government's so-called wet-foot, dry-foot policy provides that Cubans who actually reach land may get to...