European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 1, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Nations open to offering. Others join Panama in supporting . Effort Jalapa Honduras apr several latin bans. Some had received assurances of increased . 120 Miles North of the honduran Mainland Tegucigalpa Honduras apr several latin american and Caribbean nations Are expressing willingness to shelter cuban refugees led by Panama a offer to take up to 10,000 and Honduras announcement tuesday that it would accept up to 5,000 in a separate announcement the turks and Raicos islands a British dependency North of Haiti also said tuesday that it would take up to 2,000 cuban refugees for three months at a Camp at grand Turk. The Camp was built by the . Military for haitian refugees but none was brought there. The refugees in Honduras would be placed on the Islas Del Cisne Small islands in the Atlantic Ocean that were used by the Cia to train nicaraguan rebels in the Early 1980s. Venezuela Mexico and several Caribbean countries also have indicated that they Are willing to accept cubans. Some had received assurances of increased . Aid. Panama has offered to take up to 10,000 at . Bases in the canal  United states has asked All 13 members of the Caribbean Community Carico Trade bloc to shelter cubans. St. Lucia and Guyana have indicated they Are sympathetic to the . Request. St. Lucia Dominica and Suriname agreed last month to shelter haitian refugees picked up at sea and . Officials Are trying to renegotiate those agreements to Quot include cubans. A humanitarian Aid figures As a fundamental principle of honduran foreign policy. And in that context my government is ready to receive a Quantity that does not exceed 5,000 refugees from Cuba said honduran foreign minister Ernesto Paz Aguilar. The two Small islands of the Islas Del Cisne Are about 120 Miles North of the honduran Mainland in the Atlantic Ocean. They House a . Radar installation used for detecting narcotics flights. The United states has not officially asked Honduras to take the cubans Faz Aguilar said. He said the costs of sheltering them a should be shared by All the nations of the  Cuba president Fidel Castro this month stopped blocking the illegal departure of cubans taking to sea in rafts and boats prompting thousands to leave. The exodus led the United states on aug. 19to announce it would no longer automatically accept cuban refugees and would instead take those found at sea to the . Navy base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba or other countries. Some 13,000 cubans have already been taken to Guantanamo Bay.. Suspects prisoners among boat people Washington a the Cleaton administration plans to ask cuban authorities about indications that they have released prisoners to join the boat people fleeing the Island. . Officials declining to be identified said tuesday that the matter would be discussed today when delegations from the United states and Cuba meet in new York. One official said there Are about �?o100 suspect cases among the More than 15,000 cubans who Are being detained at the . Navy base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. However the official said All appear to involve prisoners serving time for such minor offences As trying to flee the Island or stealing food. The officials said it is not Clear whether the administration will try to have these cubans repatriated. The spokesman at the cuban diplomatic Mission in Washington was not available for comment on the . Allegations. Cuban prisoners Are routinely tattooed Between the thumb and forefinger making them easily identifiable by . Officials. Cuban authorities angered . Officials in 1980 when they allowed thousands of prisoners and mental patients to join the Mariel boat lift. Many of those prisoners had been guilty of violent crimes. Former foreign minister Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada will represent Cuba at the talks the first phase of which will be held Althe . Mission to the United nations. Alarcon was president Fidel Castro a most trusted foreign policy adviser until he left diplomatic life last year to become president of the National Assembly or parliament. Cuban refugees plead for help As a companion lies ill off Cuba they were soon rescued by the . Coast guard. Guantanamo losing families Guantanamo Bay naval base Cuba apr lines have grown Long at the laundries restaurants and stores and suddenly there Are traffic jams and water rationing. Schools Are empty the commissary is often out of some items and the Mcdonald a is open Only a few hours a Day. The beaches Are closed and the Golf 4?. A rescued refugees from Cuba Are brought on Board the . Coast guard Cutter Legare off Cuba on tuesday. Course will soon be covered by tents. A base that once had a Friendly Small town atmosphere is being transformed by the cuban refugee crisis. Mayberry was meeting Mariel ii on wednesday As american families were being split apart to make room for cubans on the 41-Square-mile base. Military spouses and children schoolteachers and some other civilian workers and their family members Are among roughly 2,200 people who will move out Over the next week m the first such evacuation of Guantanamo Bay since the Early years of Fidel Castro a regime. A i done to like it at All a said . Marine capt. John Maccartney bouncing his 11-month-old son Mitchell on his knee. A a in la miss his first  a i love it Here. We. Started a family Here a said his wife Scheiry. A i feel sorry for the refugees. But we re american citizens and we feel like we have to pick up and leave so other people can come on the base. Military officials decided on the evacuation because of the possibility of escapes or riots among the refugees As time drags on and also because of the added Strain on base resources. There usually Are about 7,000 residents on the base. They have been joined by More than 30,000 cuban and haitian re gees plus an additional 3,500 military personnel to Deal with a crisis that shows Little signs of abating. On tuesday 1,582 cubans were intercepted at sea. A commercial jetliner was chartered to carry out the first american evacuees from Guantanamo in wednesday. A we do have people who Are upset and confused and frustrated a said Navy it. Cmdr. Jeff Willis base operations officer. A a there a usually a great family atmosphere  Scherry Maccartney will go with her son to stay with her parents in Detroit. She and the other evacuees done to know whether they eventually will move Back to Guantanamo How Long their spouses wiil stay at the base or whether they wiil later be transferred. The Prospect of indefinite detention does no to seem to deter refugees who . Service members joke prefer a three hots meals and a Cote at Guantanamo to life at Home