Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Federal prisons here and in Louisiana were overrun late last month by Cuban inmates fearing deportation under a new immigration pact in which 2500 Cubans considered undesirable by the U.S. government would be returned to their homeland...
...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...
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...