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November 30, 1998

Flight To Freedom

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In a 20-foot boat like the one below, Romero and his wife (opposite), El Duque and five other refugees:
1. left Cuba for Anguilla Cay to meet Ramis's boat (A), which took on water and never showed;
2. were picked up by the U.S. Coast Guard and ferried to waters off Havana , after four days stranded on Anguilla Cay;
3. took another Coast Guard ship to Bimini, where bad weather prevented docking;
4. proceeded to Freeport ;
5. were flown to a detention camp in Nassau ;
6. jetted to Costa Rica .

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