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Rescue grou resources st limit in refig OVER THE STRAITS OF FLORIDA ar (AP) _ The man in the makeshift wooden th raft stretches his arms to the sky and the Amflll nlariA nivlinir nvarkaod Tlia PnVnn pwitv viivung WT VI 1IV/UU. 111^ VUMOll g? refugee has been at sea for at least two days, pj but now he thinks he is saved. ke He is wrong. The volunteer pilot for Brothers to the sc Rescue, a group of Cuban exiles who scour these waters for refugees, can only toss down some juice and a few candy bars, mark their position and hope the Coast ev Guard finds them later. Gi There are simply too many rafts, too many refugees. ov "We need some notes," said Alfredo th Sanchez, a pilot for the three-year group, do "Something that says: "You have been lo- inl cated, your position has been given to the va Coast Guard.' Then, at least, they have some hope, because this is really criminal." fr( On Wednesday, four twin-engine planes ^ from the group flew over the Straits, searching for their refugee brethren. They've flown such volunteer missions since 1991, when two exiles and Bay of Pigs veterans, Jose ^01 You may be having sex with someone who had sex with Mm i * i JH f.wM& &ZM Dillard's is your RED TAB" headquarters! ip finds I retched to , (ee crisis rived, but thafs when we were seeing just ree or four a day," Sanchez said. Once over the Straits, the 90-mile ^ retch of water that separates Cuba from orida, it takes little time for Sanchez to gin spotting rafts. ^ First there is an empty one made from rap wood. It is far enough on the journey Basulto and Bill Schuss, founded the group *or after a 15-year-old rafter died in the arms of the Coast Guard. thi Brothers' pilots have seen Cuban gun- sai 1 A- / * ' ' '* * Doais open nre on raners, Dut now tne. dozen or so volunteers fear Fidel Castro's acqui- sp< escence may mean many "1 more deaths. Bjj "Castro has substituted the firing ^r? squads for the sharks in the Straits of Flori- an( da," Basulto said. "If s a form of mass suicide." In the past week, thousands upon thou- co? sands of Cubans have set out to 1 sea in small boats, inner tubes and rickety ^ rafts _ some no more than tree limbs tied together. efft "Up until last week the procedure was "M to stay with the raft until the Coast Guard an at Sanchez believes the occupants most ;ely perished. Brothers estimates that for ery rafter found, another dies; the Coast lard disputes that estimate. Moments later, the pilot comes upon the eijoyed man and his four colleagues on e wooden raft of oil barrels. He swoops wn and drops a care package, then moves to a position about 25 miles south of Hana. Within minutes, he sees a 130-foot iighter moving straight for a raft with out 10 people aboard. He drops a smoke flare and radios back Brothers' headquarters in Miami, which itacts the freighter. It stops just yards be e hitting the raft and renders aid. "He probably wouldn't stop and help if jre weren't so many witnesses," Sanchez d. "I bet that captain is cursing." Sanchez can spot a raft - nothing but a jck on a blinding seamiles away. He claps, "here's one." Ifs a white raft with about [ males aboard. He turns to make his >p, and he yells, "There's another, and >ther." By days end - about nine hours in a king cockpi t - Sanchez has spotted near150 rafters and at least 50 on a small isd beachhead. 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