The World - News from Sept. 13, 1985
A Greek ship captain was found guilty of forcing 11 African stowaways wearing life vests to jump into shark-filled waters off the coast of Somalia last year and sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in prison. Capt. Antonis Plytsanopoulos received the stiffest jail term among 10 persons convicted in a trial in Piraeus, near Athens. The fate of the 11 stowaways, who boarded the freighter Garoufalia in Mombasa, Kenya, and hid themselves in a machinery room, was not known.
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