WASHINGTON, April 17, 1961 (UPI) -- Secretary of State Dean Rusk said today the anti-Castro invasion of Cuba was not staged from American soil but that the United States is sympathetic with the aims of those participating.Rusk said the Cuban affair was one for the Cubans themselves to settle but that the United States was not indifferent to the extension of Communist tyranny in this hemisphere.

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., April 17, 1961 (UPI) -- Cuba charged today that the invasion of Fidel Castro's island was carried out by "mercenaries" coming from Florida and Guatemala and armed and financed by the United States.U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson denied the charge.

Cuban revolutionaries invaded their island homeland by air and sea today and clashed with Fidel Castro's forces in a violent waterfront battle just 90 miles from Havana.

MIAMI, April 20, 1961 (UPI)-Fidel Castro proclaimed triumphantly today that his forces had destroyed an invasion of Cuba and seized a large number of North American-made arms, including heavy Sherman tanks.

MIAMI, April 20, 1961 (UPI)-Seven persons, including one identified as a U.S. citizen, were executed by firing squads at dawn in Havana today, Radio Havana announced. It raised the number of executions for the past three days to 24.Radio Havana, in a broadcast monitored here, identified the American citizen as Rafael Diaz Bencom. Among those executed was Humberto Sori Marin, ex-agriculture minister in Premier Fidel Castro's cabinet.

NEW YORK, April 21, 1961 (UPI)-Jose Miro Cardona, chief of the exiled anti-Castro forces, declared today that the abortive invasion of Cuba last Monday was mounted without any "military aid" from the United States."The United States should not intervene militarily against the Castro regime," said Cardona at a press conference here. "I have said repeatedly this is a Cuban fight by Cubans against Cubans."

MIAMI, April 21, 1961 (UPI) -- Radio Havana today claimed the capture of 400 rebels, including Jose Miro Torra, son of the top Cuban exile leader in the United States.The radio broadcast denounced the captured invaders as "mercenaries" but noted only moments later that some were young men from aristocratic and wealthy Cuban families.

MOSCOW, April 22, 1961 (UPI) - Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev warned President Kennedy today that an American attack on Cuba might force a Soviet attack against U.S. foreign bases which he said threaten Russia's security.

WASHINGTON, April 22, 1961 (UPI) - President Kennedy planned to meet former President Dwight D. Eisenhower at secluded Camp David, Md., today to give the old soldier a secret report on the crisis in Cuba.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 1963 (UPI)-President Kennedy said Thursday that the United States never planned to provide air cover for the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.He also told a news conference that continuous air surveillance of the island has shown no threatening inflow of arms to the Fidel Castro regime from the Soviet Union.