At Mr Helms's request, a seven-year-old Cuban boy was allowed to fly back to the United States with the delegation to receive treatment for liver disease in North Carolina, where he has relatives.
Under different circumstances, Arthur McKechnie would have been one of those people you read about in the newspaper: the schizoid boy who jumps out of a window thinking he can fly, the mad explorer who crosses the Arctic with nothing but a rucksack and a pair of crampons.