Cuba Captures 20 'Terrorists'
 

HAVANA - The Cuban Military Intelligence Service today announced the capture of 20 "terrorists" and large quantities of explosives, fuses and automatic weapons which the government charged were supplied by the United States Embassy.

Then service said that in separate night raids in the residential Marianao district, agents uncovered three "bomb factories" presumably responsible for the recent wave of bombings in downtown Havana.

The government said two of those arrested - Alfredo Carrion and Manuel Pinango - work for the Revolutionary Democratic Front, an anti-Castro organization with headquarters in Miami.

Among those arrested were Augustin Reyes Mesquida, Rafael Muñiz Garcia and Roberto Perdomo Diaz, who were accused of directing the recent explosions.

TINY BUT POWERFUL

Raiding agents said the explosives they found are so powerful that cigarrette packs were used as containers. Revolucion, the semi-official government newspaper, printed a picture of some blocks of explosive that say in stenciled English lettering "one block equivalent to one half-pound TNT block."

Revolucion described the explosives as "Yankee dynamite for counterrevolutionary terrorists."

The roundup, which was the most spectacular anti-terrorist action in the Havana area, came in the midst of wide agitation demanding capital punishment for terrorists following Wednesday's explosion in a downtown department store. Fourteen persons, including women and children, were injured in that blast.

DEPOSIT SEIZURES

The government, meanwhile, was reported preparing to take over all private bank deposits amounting to more than $10,000 and all businesses worth more than $5,000.

A twin-engine yellow and blue Cessna plane flew over Pinar del Rio province early today, dropping copies of the magazine Bohernia Libre and the Miami-published newspaper El Mundo.

Soldiers and militiamen fired at the plane, which approached from a southerly direction.