World IN BRIEF : PANAMA : All but 40 Cubans Returned to Camps
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Most of the 1,000 Cubans who escaped from refugee camps in Panama were back in custody after two days of riots injured more than 200 U.S. soldiers. The refugees, fed up with U.S. promises to find them permanent homes, broke down large sections of barbed wire encircling two camps, and some ran away Thursday. A day later, all but 40 had been returned. Refugees said one person drowned in the Panama Canal, where some tried to swim to freedom. But a military spokeswoman said she had no reports of deaths.
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