<p>MIAMI — When Cuban fighter jets shot down planes flown by members of a Cuban exile group from Miami 30 years ago, The Associated Press was there. The AP is republishing that story, by AP writer Nicole Winfield, as it appeared on Saturday, Feb. 24, 1996: </p>

MIAMI — When Cuban fighter jets shot down planes flown by members of a Cuban exile group from Miami 30 years ago, The Associated Press was there. The AP is republishing that story, by AP writer Nicole Winfield, as it appeared on Saturday, Feb. 24, 1996:

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