The World - News from Sept. 14, 1988

Cuba blamed British and U.S. intelligence services for a shooting incident that prompted Britain to expel the Cuban ambassador and an attache. Ambassador Oscar Fernandez-Mell and his commercial attache, Carlos Manuel Medina Perez, left the country after Medina Perez was accused of firing shots at a group of people outside his London home. But the Cuban Embassy claimed that the attache had actually opened fire on a CIA operative who tried to get him to defect. It identified the operative as Florentino Azpillaga Lombard, a former Cuban diplomat who defected last year, and said that British and U.S. intelligence services had worked together during the incident.