The World - News from March 6, 1987
A Nicaraguan judge gave 30-year prison terms to two Cuban refugees captured by Sandinista troops last June while fighting with the U.S.-backed contras. Ubaldo Hernandez Perez, 27, and Mario Eugenio Rejas Lavas, 33, who said they had lived in Miami since 1980, listened quietly as Judge Reynaldo Monterrey read the sentence, the maximum under Nicaraguan law. The two were each sentenced to 27 years in prison for violating national security and public order laws. They received another three years for the crime of joining a group formed to commit acts against the state.
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