Castro’s prisoners fly to freedom
NZPA-Reuter Miami The first contingent of Cuban political prisoners to be reunited with their friends and families in the United States has arrived in Miami, Florida. The planeload of more than 70 people, including 46 former prisoners, received a standing ovation from more than 2000 fellow-Cubans when they arrived from Ha-1 vana by chartered plane. | They are the first group I of several hundred oppo-i nents of the Castro regime >
i who hope to leave the island ’ under an agreement to rei lease political prisoners. Mr Bernardo Benes, a Cuban-American banker who helped organise the airlift, said he had been told by President Fidel Castro before i leaving Havana that the others might be set free by January. In an interview with re- ' porters in Havana, President j Castro on Saturday said he I hoped for the release of all I the political prisoners by the end of the year.
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Press, 23 October 1978, Page 7
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