The Nation - News from Sept. 25, 1986

The son of a Sandinista official and a Cuban family of three asked for political asylum after their Iberia Airlines flight from Havana to Madrid ended in an emergency landing at Miami’s airport. Manuel De Jesus Prado-Ortega, 20, of Nicaragua said his father is a government agronomist assigned to indoctrinate farmers into the Sandinista philosophy. The Cubans are Sergio Betancourt-Henriquez, 31; his wife, Ibis Binimelis-Groche, 28, and their 13-month-old son, Sergio