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Cuba frees 18 Americans in exchange for four Cuban fishermen
Fidel Castro's regime announces a swap exchanging 18 U S citizens in Cuba for four Cubans jailed in the United States. The transfer followed the return of four Cubans from an American prison to a Cuban fishing boat near the Dry Tortugas. fines were reduced from 20000 to 2000 dollars, with sentences suspended for the Cuban prisoners. The Americans include four aboard the yacht White Cloud, five aboard the Saturna, eight crew of the Tug Battler, and Fritz Sprandel, a canoeist returned to the United States. The exchange ends a tense episode sparked by Cuban arrests and U S detentions with the State Department confirming the release.
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Miami
Cuba
Fidel Castro
United States
Havana
Gulf of
Mexico
Fritz Sprandel
Florida
Havana Radio
White Cloud
Sprandel
Eglin Federal
Eglin
U.S. Coast Guard
Tortugas
Gulf
Allentown
Key West
Fla
Yucatan Peninsula
State Department
Washington
California
Bernard Bender
Lauren
Michael
Thomas Joseph McGuire
U.S
Berkeley
Calif
Saturna
Battler
Port Everglades Towing Co
Fort Lauderdale