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...ATLANTA--Cuban inmates who took control of a federal penitentiary 12 days ago put down their weapons one by one yesterday and boarded buses for new cells elsewhere as their 89 hostages savored their first full day of freedom...
...ATLANTA-Cuban inmates fighting deportation torched buildings and reportedly seized 75 hostages in a lunchtime riot at Atlanta's federal prison yesterday, two days after a similar uprising in Louisiana where prisoners continued to hold captives...
OAKDALE, La.--Cuban prisoners in a federal detention center here yesterday rioted and took more than 20 hostages after they found out they might be sent back to Cuba. They demanded that they not be deported, authorities said...
Meanwhile, 17 Cuban inmates in Laredo, Texas, escaped from a medium-security detention facility early yesterday by climbing through a steel roof grating. Authorities recaptured all but three of the escapees within hours...
...wide, Grenada has a surprisingly impressive airport. The 9,000-ft. runway of Point Salines International Airport can easily accommodate jumbo jets from any part of the world. But the most action the tarmac gets these days is from twin-engine Avro 748 island hoppers from Trinidad and Barbados. Cuban engineers began building the airport in the early 1980s, during the leftist regime of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. One U.S. invasion and $19 million in aid later, Point Salines International is completed and, much like Grenada, sits waiting for something to happen...