Cuba, US Take Calm Approach to Investigating Chaotic Episode (1)

A chaotic encounter between Cuban security forces and a boatful of men who had set out from Florida this week could have lit a fuse at a time of increased tension between the US and Havana. Instead, calmer heads are prevailing, for now.

Cuban officials have said that the men were terrorists who had planned and trained in the US for an attack on the country. But Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Carlos Fernandez de Cossio said in a statement Thursday that US authorities had “shown their willingness to cooperate in clarifying the facts,” despite years of defiant posturing ...