71.   At the time, dozens of professional teams played on the same field where the Cuban national team faced the Orioles.

72.   Both defected while the Cuban team was training in Mexico and traveled to the United States.

73.   But Canadian immigration officials and sources close to the Cuban team said the official was wrong.

74.   But Kingdom said he heard the Cuban team complained he had deliberately knocked down a hurdle.

75.   Casamayor and Ramon Garbey left the Cuban team during training in Mexico and crossed into the United States.

76.   Cuban President Fidel Castro said in a meeting last week with U.S. newspaper editors in Havana that he is not opposed to Cuban teams competing in the United States.

77.   Cubas shadows the Cuban national team.

78.   Cuba has been angry with the representatives and scouts of U.S. Major League Baseball, who have been attending the Games with a keen interest in the Cuban team.

79.   Cuban national team pitching coach Rigoberto Betancourt Herrera defected in May following an exhibition game victory against the Orioles in Baltimore.

80.   Cubas had given him the plan a few days earlier in Alabama, where the Cuban Olympic team played exhibition games.