71.   Two exile planes also violated Cuban airspace and flew over Havana that day.

72.   U.S. officials allowed the planes to take off from Florida despite knowing they would violate Cuban airspace, the spokesman, Miguel Alfonso Martinez, said in Geneva.

73.   U.S. officials have conceded that a third Brothers plane did violate Cuban airspace, but it returned to Florida safely.

74.   While members of the exile group has said that the pilots were always in international territory, the Cuban government has insisted that they invaded Cuban airspace.

75.   Washington says it will take stern action against any American civilian pilot who penetrates Cuban airspace Saturday.

76.   Havana maintained that the planes -- flown by members of the anti-Castro group Brothers to the Rescue -- had entered Cuban airspace.

77.   Havana maintained that the planes had entered Cuban airspace, a claim the United States has challenged.

78.   Havana maintains the planes, piloted by Cuban-Americans belonging to a group opposing Cuban President Fidel Castro, had entered Cuban airspace.

79.   He also pledged US authorities would fine and otherwise punish anyone entering Cuban airspace or waters illegally, action Havana had demanded for years.

80.   Havana claims the planes had entered Cuban airspace.