By Peter Kihss
Special to The New York Times

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, July 8-A United States negotiator said today that he hoped the first servicemen kidnapped by Cuban rebels would be released tomorrow.

Vice Consul Robert Wiecha of Saginaw, Mich., arrived arrived here tonight by one helicopter with one more rescued civilian.

The civilian was Daymond Elmore of Haynesville, La., kidnaped June 28 from the Ermita sugar mill. He said that one serviceman had been staying near him and other sources indicate that this was Airman T. R. Mossness of Ames, Iowa.

Mr. Wiecha drove alone by jeep into the mountains June 28 to seek the release of twenty nine
servicemen kidnapped the night before from a liberty bus. Three other civilians remain to be extricated.

Reply from Raul Castro

Later sixteen North American newsmen on the base recieved a letter from Raul Castro, in which Señor Castro declined to fix a deadline for the release of all captives

The newsmen had written him that  “there has been adverse reaction on the part of the North American people against the detention of young servicemen and civilians.”

They asked: “One, when will you free all the detained men; two, what is the reason why they have not been freed up to this moment?”

The typewritten reply, in Spanish, was date-lined from “Free Territory of Cuba” and gave the following answers:

“First, we have not set a date to liberate all the North Americans returned; second, the motives