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 PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba (AP) - A Cuban army officer killed during a failed airplane hijacking was buried with military honors Friday, decorated posthumously with one of the communist regime's top medals as officials blamed Washington for his death.
A government statement said the American policy of letting most Cubans stay if they reach U.S. soil encourages violent attempts to leave this island, such as Thursday's incident that led to the fatal shooting of Lt. Col. Victor Ibo Acuna Velazquez by two army deserters.
The headline in the Communist Party newspaper called the hijacking attempt an "act of terror promoted by the United States."
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