Cuban Funds Used to Pay Pilots’ Survivors
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The families of four private pilots killed when their planes were shot down by Cuban jets have received $300,000 each in compensation--paid by the U.S. government out of frozen Cuban funds, the Miami Herald reported. A U.S. State Department official told the newspaper the payment “does not mean the families waive their right to sue the Cuban government.”
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