Peru ready. for airlift
NZPA-Reuter , Havana Peruvian Air Force planes are standing by at Lima Airport to fly some of the 10,000 or so refugees who are packed into the grounds of Peru’s mission in Havana, diplomatic sources said. The Cuban authorities have begun handing out passports to the refugees, who have been living in appalling conditions that have aroused fears of a serious epidemic. The Cuban Government has said those who have
a I been issued with passports I or safe-conduct passes would s be allowed to go home and •- wait until.they are granted e entry visas by another couno try, when they would then s be free to leave the island, i, Peru has already agreed to take 1000 of them. s Since Cuba began issuing it passports, about 2000 people i, nave left the embassy comi- pound, which, according to e the one journalist who mans aged to get in, is littered with excrement, the stench t reaching several blocks e around the embassy.
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