Cuban Funds Used to Pay Pilots’ Survivors
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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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